Ostr. Berlin P. 12957

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12957
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)	72 mm \| 68 mm \| 7 mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	The lower part is broken off in undetermined extent.
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)	Heavily faded. Last line partially broken off.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, without margin on the right.
	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 Greek foreign words for jugs (account?)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary
Summary of Content	This ostracon contains a listing of several word for jugs originating from Greek. As all are connected with numbers, an explataion as account may be possible. Another possibility is an interpretation as an scribal exercise, to judge from the unclear headings.
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

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	¹I am indebted to J. F. Quack for different reading suggestions, to R. Duttenhöfer for information on Greek vessel words. ḫfṱ-ḥ(?)
2	pꜣ ꜥmꜣ(?) n nꜣ wḫꜥ.w(?) ²With jug determinative, so in my opinion maybe a word for (foreign) jugs? n Swn
3	pꜣ ꜥm 1 sꜥnthys 25
4	glmy ³Cf. ϭⲉⲗⲙⲁⲓ „jug“: W. Westendorf, Koptisches Handwörterbuch, 452. ꜥꜣ 10 pšgws 11(?)
5	///rf 6.t [_] lꜥwtꜥry 40.t
6	grḥbts 12 gꜥtw ꜥꜣ.t 5.t
7	bꜥtꜥnꜥ 110
8	pꜣ wtn(?) 1 sꜥnthys dmḏ(?) 36
9	glmy ḫm 40
10	lꜥgyns ꜥꜣ 2

¹ I am indebted to J. F. Quack for different reading suggestions, to R. Duttenhöfer for information on Greek vessel words.
² With jug determinative, so in my opinion maybe a word for (foreign) jugs?
³ Cf. ϭⲉⲗⲙⲁⲓ „jug“: W. Westendorf, Koptisches Handwörterbuch, 452.

1	..?.. dromos(?)
2	The knowledge(?) of the jugs/jug-words(?) in Syene.
3	The clay-jug: 1 (and) the santhys-jug ..?..: 25
5	Large kalpis-storage-jar: 10 (and) psykter-goblet (for symposion ψυκτήρ): 11.
5	..?..: 6 (and) [_] louterion-bowl (hand-washing, λουτήριον) 40.
6	Klibanos-bread-jar(?): 12 (and) large kados-storage-jar (καδος): 5.
7	Patane-bowl: 110.
8	The libation-jug(?):1 (and) the santhys-jug: Sum(?) 36.
9	Small kalpis-storage-jar: 40.
10	Large lagynos-jar: 2.

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People mentioned in Text

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)

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

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DatasetID	100208
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 100208 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12957), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.