Ostr. Berlin P. 12925

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12925
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	since 1963/86
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	unpublished

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
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	partage
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Zucker, Friedrich (excavation director) Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Borchardt, Ludwig Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, grey
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	upper right corner is lost

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)	col. x+I: the beginning of the lines is broken off. The signs are partly rubbed out. col. x+II: only ink traces
Script, Primary	Old Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian, Classical
Comments on Handwriting	The signs have characteristics of Old Kingdom handwriting, but probably date to the Middle Kingdom.
Comments on Text Layout	The space between the lines is irregular. The lines are almost of equal length, but they do not run straight. There is a correcture in col. x+I, x+2.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	col. x+I: x+5+y col. x+II: x+4+y

Text Content

Ancient Title	List of names with a note of the amount of delivered (?) beer and wood
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary \| list
Summary of Content	list of names with a note of the amount of delivered (?) beer and wood
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

¹Transliteration and Translation by M. Grünhagen.

convex

x+I
x+1	m.t ḥnq.t 1
x+2	šn ²The scribe wrote the wrong sign for the phonetic value šn (Gardiner Sign U13) at first. He corrected his mistake and wrote Gardiner Sign V7 over it. n=k ḫt
x+3	gmı͗ ḥnq.t 1 1/3
x+4	Ḥnw.t ḥnq.t 1
x+5	sꜣ.t Mrj ḥnq.t 1

¹ Transliteration and Translation by M. Grünhagen.
² The scribe wrote the wrong sign for the phonetic value šn (Gardiner Sign U13) at first. He corrected his mistake and wrote Gardiner Sign V7 over it.

convex

x+I
x+1	[///]met beer 1
x+2	[///]shen[///] for you wood
x+3	[///]gemi beer 1 1/3
x+4	[///] Henut beer 1
x+5	[///] the daughter of Meri beer 1

P_12925_R_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
17635	woman	Henut	Ḥnw.t	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
First Intermediate Period - Middle Kingdom				-2170 BCE -1794 BCE	palaeographical dating;

Pictures

P_12925_R_001

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P_12925_V_001

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Literature

Harrauer, Hermann & et. al., CPR X. Corpus Papyrorum Rainerii, Band 10. Griechische Texte (VII) (1986). ()

DatasetID	100185
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100185 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12925), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.