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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Berlin P. 12916 |
Current Location | magazine |
Comments on Inventory | registered as existing during revision (1963) |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication assigned |
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 Type | ostracon |
Color | pottery, red brown |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 80 mm | 75 mm | 3 mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Complete. | |
Script, Primary | Late Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Roman Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed onto the upper left section of the surface of the potsherd, with very broad margins on the right and at the bottom. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 4 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 60 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 52 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 60 x 52 | 0 |
Modern Title | list of persons delivered or received money |
Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | List of persons and their payments or income. 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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||
1 For information on the writings of the amounts of money I am indebted to S. Lippert, Montpellier. 2 Names with this form of writing are also being interpreted as Hrj-Ptḥ, cf. Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 746 – 748, 772. 3 For a discussion on the reading of such signs I am indebted to BRIAN MUHS, Chicago. For Roman forms of ḥḏ cf. Wångstedt in OrSu 31-32 (1982-83), 25 Kat. XV. 4 Transcription and translation according to S. Lippert (paper presented on the 13th ICDS in Leipzig 2017), this part must be in obols (not mentioned) and represents the equivalent to the amount of 1 silver drachma = ½ silver kite. 5 This name seems to be a combination of an Egyptian with a Greek one and is otherwise not known to me. For the Greek part cf. the currently only once attested name Swr ( Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 909.), which can be a transliteration of a Greek name Σούλις/ Σῦλις (The form Σουλιος seems to be a nominative. Cf. also the once attested female name Σουλωις: Clarysse / Thompson, P. Count (2006), 32,37, from Early Ptolemaic Arsinoites.). Once attested from the cemetery of Sohag is the female name Σενψούλις from the 4th Century CE (SB 10 10501,2) , which is given in Trismegistos as deriving from “Tꜣ-šr.t-n-..?..”. The – currently unattested – male equivalent to this female name should be Psenpsoulis/*Πσενπσούλις, cf. the Name Πσούλις with its several varying Greek writing forms. This will fit well the name attested on the ostracon here. Πσούλις is transferred by the Egyptian scribe in Pꜣ-Swrs, possibly in unawareness of the original nature of the name. According to this, we can reconstruct the female name from Sohag as being Tꜣ-šr.t(-n)-Pꜣ-Swrs. 6 Curiously, the group for the currency kite is written behind the cipher. This can be found on some other Elephantine accounts and should be a local variant, possibly deriving from gs qd = “half of a kite”. It is remarkable that the same amount in l. 2 and 3 is written in a different way, but due to the information of S. LIPPERT from her material from Hut-Repit that there was a rule that sums lower than 5 stater were given in stater, but in contrast sums higher than 5 stater were written in deben+kite. 7 It is unusual that the smaller amount kite is noted before the higher amount of the deben and not behind as usual. This can be found also on Ostr. Berlin P. 12954 (stater before deben), seems to be a local variant in Roman Elephantine. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
27590 | man | Chenemeus (P. 12916) | H̱nm-ı͗w | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Roman Period | -30 BCE 211 CE | Dating by papaeography and orthography.; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 100212 |
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 100212 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12916), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |