Ostr. Berlin P. 12971

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12971
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, medium brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	98 mm \| 90 mm \| 6 mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Complete, only slight damage of the upper rim.
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)	Ending of first line and beginning of last line damaged.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Medium but unequal line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, with small lateral margins and a broader upper one. The lower crotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	85	0
Column Height (in mm)	50	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	85 x 50	0

Modern Title	list of persons in connection with a shrine
Ancient Archives	administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary religious \| polytheistic Egyptian
Summary of Content	This ostracon lists three persons regarding moving to a shrine. The exact context remains unclear.
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)

Transcription

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1	ḥsb.t 20.t (n) 𓍹ꜣntwnyns 𓍹Gysrs
2	nty ḫw ḥꜣ.t n qdy ¹I am indebted to J. F. Quack for reading of this word n tꜣ qnḥ n sw 7
3	tꜣ mḥ 1.t Pꜣ-šr-Nı͗.t..?.. sꜣ ..?..
4	tꜣ mḥ 2.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ns-pꜣ- sꜣ ..?..
5	tꜣ mḥ 3.t Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-ns-mtr sꜣ Ḥr

¹ I am indebted to J. F. Quack for reading of this word

1	20th regnal year (of) Antoninus Caesar
2	Augustus. The beginning of moving to the shrine on the 7th day.
3	The first: Psenneithis..?.., son of ..?.. .
4	The second: Petesp..?..., son of ..?.. .
5	The third: Pachnoumis, son of Petosorsmetis, son of Horos.

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8135	man	imperator 08 Antoninus Pius: Antoninus Caesar	Ἀντωνείνος/ Ἀντωνίνος Καίσαρος	Latin

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius	20		07	156 CE 157 CE	Internal dating, with name of the ruler.;

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DatasetID	100213
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 100213 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12971), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.