Ostr. Berlin P. 12954

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12954
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)	128 mm \| 80 mm \| 9 mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	The lower right corner is broken off. Slightly damage of the surface in the upper section.
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)	Beginning of the last line lost.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with larger lateral upper margins. The lower crotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	10	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 payments
Ancient Archives	administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| account documentary \| list
Summary of Content	List of persons and their payments. Nothing is mentioned about the context of these transactions.
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

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1	pꜣ rn
2	Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Nfr-ḥtp ¹For the Roman writing of this name cf. Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 319 no. 47. sꜣ Wn-nfr sttr 2.t ḥḏ dbn ²It is unusual that the smaller amount stater is noted before the higher amount of the deben and not behind as usual. This can for example be found also on Ostr. Berlin P. 12916 (stater before deben), and seems to be a local variant in Roman Elephantine.
3	49
4	Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ sttr 1.t ḥḏ dbn 39
5	Pꜣ-ḏı͗-H̱nm sꜣ Pꜣ-šy sttr 1.t ḥḏ dbn 10
6	Twtw ³For this name cf. Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 1274 esp. no. 54. The name attested in the Elephantine ostracon show a slight variance concerning the rear part. sttr 1.t
7	Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-Ns-mtr sꜣ By-ꜥnḫ sttr 2.t ḥḏ dbn 47-ḥnꜥ-½ ⁴Transcription and translation according to S. LIPPERT (paper presented on the 13th ICDS in Leipzig 2017). This group as the the last part of this line was written below the „40” due to the lack of space at the very end of the line touching already the left rim of the potsherd.
8	Pa-H̱nm sꜣ By-ꜥnḫ pꜣ ḫm ḥḏ dbn 22-ḥnꜥ-½
9	Pꜣ- ⁵The scribe has corrected the writing of the name. ḥḏ dbn 20
10	(sꜣ) Ptrn ⁶For one source of this name cf. Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 485. sttr 1.t
11	Ḥr-m-ḥb(?) ḏbꜥ.t 2 ḥḏ dbn 35

¹ For the Roman writing of this name cf. Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 319 no. 47.
² It is unusual that the smaller amount stater is noted before the higher amount of the deben and not behind as usual. This can for example be found also on Ostr. Berlin P. 12916 (stater before deben), and seems to be a local variant in Roman Elephantine.
³ For this name cf. Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 1274 esp. no. 54. The name attested in the Elephantine ostracon show a slight variance concerning the rear part.
⁴ Transcription and translation according to S. LIPPERT (paper presented on the 13th ICDS in Leipzig 2017). This group as the the last part of this line was written below the „40” due to the lack of space at the very end of the line touching already the left rim of the potsherd.
⁵ The scribe has corrected the writing of the name.
⁶ For one source of this name cf. Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 485.

1	The list ⸢..?.. ⸣.
2	Pachnoumis, son of Petenephotes, son of Onnophris: 2 stater and 49 silver
3	deben.
4	Pachnoumis, son of Pelaias: [_] 1 stater and 39 silver deben.
5	Petechnoumis, son of Psais: 1 stater and 10 silver deben.
6	Totoes: [_] 1 stater.
7	Petosorsmetis, son of Bienchis: 2 stater, 47½ silver deben - 40 silver deben and 1 silver drachma. - 47,5 silver deben.
8	Pachnoumis, son of Bienchis Junior: [_] 22,5 silver deben.
9	Pa..?..: [_] 20 silver deben.
10	..?.., (son) of Patron: [_] 1 stater.
11	[///] ⸢..?..⸣ Harmais(?), 2 obol, [_] 35 silver deben.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
26100	man	..?.., son of Patron	..?.. sꜣ Ptrn	(not identified)

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Roman Period				-30 BCE 100 CE	Dating by palaeography;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	100205
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 100205 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12954), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.