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Ostr. Berlin P. 12948

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12948
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) 73 mm | 113 mm | 5 mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete.
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) Line endings faded.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Narrow line pitch. The text was placed onto the right half of the surface of the potsherd, with a small upper margin. The left and lower crotches remain uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 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
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content List of names, at least some of them of non-Egyptian origin.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text Hand copy of one line in the inventory book.
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
2Gmrys (sꜣ) Pygꜥrs
5Bꜥs ..?..
2Komaros, son of Pigres
5Bas ..?.. .
P_12948_aussen
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P_12948_innen
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
36685 man Komaros, son of Pigres Gmrys sꜣ Pygꜥrs Greek, Ancient

 

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_12948_aussen
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P_12948_innen
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 100202
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 100202 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12948), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.