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Ostr. Berlin P. 12966

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12966
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory registered as existing during revision (1963)
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Zucker, Friedrich (excavation director)
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution partage
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1907 and 1908
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, red brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 93 mm | 75 mm | 7 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The left as well as the lower part are broken off in undetermined extent.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) All line endings lost. Lower part lost in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide but unequal line pitch. The text holds a broad and equal distance to the right rim, geared to the bent outline shape of the potsherd.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 0
Column Height (in mm) 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of names with shares
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content This account mentions serveral males with their shares, maybe money. The wider context remains unclear.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text Hand copy of one line in the inventory book.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Onnophris, son of Panouphis [///]
2Onnophris ..?.. [///]
3Onnophris Junior, (son) of Pa⸢..?..⸣ [///]
4Lucius ..?.. [///]
5The third of Dj..?.. [///]
6The 5th of Pachnoumis, yields 160(?) [_] Psen..?..⸣ [///]
7Petosorsmetis, son of Phibis [///]
8⸢..?.⸣ the third [_] ⸢..?..⸣[///]
9[///]⸢..?..⸣[///]
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
37860 man Dj..?.. Ḏ..?.. pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period -30 BCE 211 CE Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

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P_12966_innen
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 100133
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100133 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12966), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.