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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Berlin P. 12922 |
Current Location | magazine |
Comments on Inventory | registered as existing during revision (1963) |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication assigned |
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 Type | ostracon |
Color | pottery, medium brown |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 119 mm | 108 mm | 6 mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The lower left corner is broken off. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Partly faded. Beginnings of the first four lines lost. | |
Script, Primary | Late Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Roman Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with broad upper and lower margins. The lines are geared to the bend of the outline shape. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 8 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 100 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 85 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 100 x 85 | 0 |
Modern Title | account |
Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Account |
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 |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
8060 | not applicable | (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) | (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) | (none) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Roman Period | -30 BCE 211 CE | Dating by palaeography.; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 100195 |
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 100195 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12922), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |