Ostr. Berlin P. 12974

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12974
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)	111 mm \| 163 mm \| 6 mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Complete. Consists of two joining fragments. Slight damages of the surfaces along the break.
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)	Loss of ink due to partial damages of the surface. Line beginnings partly faded.
Script, Primary	Demotic
Language, Primary	Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, without lateral and upper margins. The lower right crotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6	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	school exercise_ substantives with suffix pronouns
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary
Summary of Content	List of several substantives with suffixes =f "his" and =k "your".
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

Pictures

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1
2	qtme=f qtme=k qtme=k qtme=f
3	stf=f ¹For this word, if correctly identified, cf. CDD_s, 512-513, ERICHSEN, Demotisches Glossar, 478. stf=k stf =k stf=f bs=f ²This word may be connected with bs “”a metal vessel”, cf. ERICHSEN, Demotisches Glossar, 122, and CDD_B, 82. This determinative written here does not appear in any of the known attestations of this word, but all other words with bs seem to fitting here well. Maybe the determinative is a scribal error bs=k
4	bs=k bs=f ḥmꜣ=f ḥmꜣ=k ḥmꜣ=k
5	ḥmꜣ=f ~~///~~ ³The wiped out parts were written in front of nearly all wrr-writings. Only the last notation (with the missing suffix!) is without this, so the trainee realized his faults and corrected them. wrr=f ⁴For 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. ~~///~~ wrr=k ~~///~~ wrr=k wrr=f ⁵The addition of a missing =f derives from the regular structure of the exercises provided here, in a sequence =f / =k / =k / =f.
6	ḥbsDet.=f ḥbsDet.=k ḥbs=k ḥbs=f sty(.t)=f ⁶For the word cf. ERICHSEN, Demotisches Glossar, 475- 476. A similar determinative was used in Ostr. Hor 59,14 (CDD_S, 504). sty(.t)=k sty(.t)=k sty(.t)=f
7	~~///~~

¹ For this word, if correctly identified, cf. CDD_s, 512-513, ERICHSEN, Demotisches Glossar, 478.
² This word may be connected with bs “”a metal vessel”, cf. ERICHSEN, Demotisches Glossar, 122, and CDD_B, 82. This determinative written here does not appear in any of the known attestations of this word, but all other words with bs seem to fitting here well. Maybe the determinative is a scribal error
³ The wiped out parts were written in front of nearly all wrr-writings. Only the last notation (with the missing suffix!) is without this, so the trainee realized his faults and corrected them.
⁴ 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.
⁵ The addition of a missing =f derives from the regular structure of the exercises provided here, in a sequence =f / =k / =k / =f.
⁶ For the word cf. ERICHSEN, Demotisches Glossar, 475- 476. A similar determinative was used in Ostr. Hor 59,14 (CDD_S, 504).

1	..?..
2	..?.. His pasture tax, your pasture tax, your pasture tax, his pasture tax.
3	His purifying, your purifying, your purifying, &amp;amp;amp;lt;his> purifying. His bes-vessel, your bes-vessel,
4	your bes-vesssel, his bes-vessel. His salt, your salt, your salt,
5	his salt. His [[///]] hesitation, your [[///]]hesitation, your [[///]]hesitation, &amp;amp;amp;lt;his> hesitation.
6	His enrobing, your enrobing, &amp;amp;amp;lt;your> enrobing, his enrobing. His flame, your flame, your flame, his flame.
7	[[///]].

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Places (read out from edition)

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

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	100215
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 100215 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12974), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.