Ostr. Berlin P. 12956

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12956
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, red brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	98 mm \| 107 mm \| 6 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)	Partly heavily faded.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed onto the right side of the surface of the potsherd. the very left and lower parts remain uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8	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 persons and their delay in payment
Ancient Archives	administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| list
Summary of Content	List of persons with amounts of money, representing their delay in payment.
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

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	pꜣ wrr ¹For the reading wrr contra ḥrr see Quack, J. F. 2002. „Beiträge zum Peripherdemotischen“, in: Bács, T.A. (ed), A Tribute to Excellence. Studies offered in Honor of Ernö Gaál, Ulrich Luft, László Török, Budapest, 393-403, here 397. n ½ ¼ ẖr sw ²For the reading of the line end I am indebted to the participiants of the Demotic Summer School 2018 in Munich.
2	By-ꜥnḫ sꜣ ///s [_] ///
3	sꜣ Glꜣn ḥḏ dbn 5
4	Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r sꜣ Pa-H̱nm ḥḏ dbn 10
5	Pa-H̱nm sꜣ sꜣ Ns-mt(r) ḥḏ dbn 10
6	ꜣs.t-m-ḥb (pꜣ) ḫm 9
7	Ns-mt(r) (sꜣ) Smtrgs ³For this name, which is attested in Demotic script only in the Roman Period with several writing variants cf. Lüddeckens, Erich. Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 926. The notation of the “g” is not fully clear do the heavy fading at this position. ///
8	r ḏbꜥ.t 20+2+½

¹ For the reading wrr contra ḥrr see Quack, J. F. 2002. „Beiträge zum Peripherdemotischen“, in: Bács, T.A. (ed), A Tribute to Excellence. Studies offered in Honor of Ernö Gaál, Ulrich Luft, László Török, Budapest, 393-403, here 397.
² For the reading of the line end I am indebted to the participiants of the Demotic Summer School 2018 in Munich.
³ For this name, which is attested in Demotic script only in the Roman Period with several writing variants cf. Lüddeckens, Erich. Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 926. The notation of the “g” is not fully clear do the heavy fading at this position.

1	The delay in payment, ½ ¼ regarding the wheat:
2	Bienchis, son of ⸢///⸣s: [_] ⸢///⸣.
3	⸢..?..⸣, son of Kleon: 5 silver deben.
4	Petosiris, son of Pachnoumis: [_] 10 silver deben.
5	Pachnoumis, son of ⸢..?..⸣, son of Espmetis: [_] 10 silver deben.
6	Isimaïs Junior: [_] 9 ..?.. .
7	Espmetis, (son) of Samothrax: ⸢///⸣
8	Yields 22½ obols.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
23070	man	Bienchis, son of ⸢///⸣s	By-ꜥnḫ sꜣ ⸢///⸣s	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Roman Period				-30 BCE 211 CE	Dating by palaeography.;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	100207
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 100207 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12956), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.