Ostr. Berlin P. 12973

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12973
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	registered as existing during revision (1963). Primary a wrong inventory no "12977" was written onto the sherd, aftrewards corrected.
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)	136 mm \| 88 mm \| 6 mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The left part is lost 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 broken off.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small but unequal upper and right margins. Second text separated by free space and a horizontal line.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	11+y	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	88	0
Column Height (in mm)	128	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	88+y x 128+y	0

Text Content

Modern Title	list of names, mainly female
Ancient Archives	unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| list \| name list
Summary of Content	List of names, mainly women, presumably some of them slaves.
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 Woman
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: unclear context (name in a list) - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man - Identifier of woman: daughter of a woman - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man, additionally with his father
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	Ṯꜣy-ḏy (sꜣ) Mrꜣ 5
2	Pꜣ- [_] Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Wn-nfr ꜥꜣ
3	Tꜣ-šr.t-pꜣ-bı͗k ta Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Wn-nfr
4	Tꜣ-šr.t-pꜣ-bı͗k ta Wa
5	Tꜣ-šr.t-pꜣ-bı͗k
6	Tꜣ-šr.t-Ns-mtr ꜥꜣ.t ta Ta-
7	Tꜣ-sn.t-snw.t ꜥꜣ.t ta Pꜣ-
8	Ta ¹At first, the scribe wrote Ta, a regular initial of female names, before he washed it out and noted the correct beginning of this female name starting with an Aleph. ꜣp ta By-ꜥnḫ
9	Ta-plpens
	²Intentional space in the height of one line. Following text below black horizontal stroke.
10	Wn-nfr
11

¹ At first, the scribe wrote Ta, a regular initial of female names, before he washed it out and noted the correct beginning of this female name starting with an Aleph.
² Intentional space in the height of one line. Following text below black horizontal stroke.

1	Sisois [_], (son) of Mera: 5[///]
2	P..?.. [_] of Pachnoumis, son of Onnophris Senior [///]
3	Tsenpbekis, &amp;amp;amp;lt;daughter> of Pachnoumis, son of Onnophris ⸢..?..⸣
4	Tsenpbekis, daughter of Wa.
5	Tsenpbekis ..?.. [///]
6	Senespmetis Senior, daughter of Ta⸢..?..⸣.
7	Tsenesonthis Senior, daughter of P..?..[///].
8	[[T]] Ap..?.., daughter of Bienchis
9	Tapelpens ..?..[///]
11	Onnophris [///]
12	⸢..?..⸣ [///]

P_12973_aussen

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P_12973_innen

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
26215	woman	Ap..?.., daughter of Bienchis	ꜣp..?.. ta By-ꜥnḫ	(not identified)

Dates

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

Pictures

P_12973_aussen

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P_12973_innen

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	100136
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 100136 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12973), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.