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Ostr. Berlin P. 12931

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12931
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, medium brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 85 mm | 63 mm | 10 mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete, rims slighly damaged partly.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

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.
Script, Primary Demotic
Language, Primary Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with broad and equal margins on all sides.rücken näher an den linken Rand heran.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 55 0
Column Height (in mm) 78 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 55 x 78 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of priests on-duty
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content List of priests on duty, 5 persons. Mainly illegible due to the faded condition.
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
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
4Belles, son of Phatres.
P_12931_aussen
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P_12931_innen
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
36445 man Belles, son of Hatres Br sꜣ Pꜣ-ḥtr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) -332 BCE -222 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_12931_aussen
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_12931_innen
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 100198
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 100198 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12931), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.