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Ostr. Berlin P. 12995

TEI-XML-File: https://p612399.webspaceconfig.de/xml/elephantine_erc_db_100248.tei.xml

Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12995
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory The object was missing since 1945. Not until 2010, Biri Fay found it on a Berlin flee market and was able to receive it back for the collection.
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

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 find (unspecified)
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) (unknown)
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 (unknown)
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (unknown)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 95 mm | 108 mm | 7 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The lower left part and the right part are 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) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The lower part is broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Handwriting Late Demotic court hand (Geschäftsschrift) of diffferent hands.
Comments on Text Layout Different line pitches. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with a small upper margin. Text divided into two parts by a shaky horizontal line.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 100 0
Column Height (in mm) 90 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 100 x 90 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title diary in the context of ltm receipts
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Diary with accounts mentioning bread, carob trees, wheat, as well as Nubians. No parallels are known, the nearest connections are with the Theban ltm receipts. This diary was written by different persons.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Woman
Comment on Gender - Identifier of woman: none - Activity of woman: unclear context
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11All according to Kaplony-Heckel in AfP 49, 74 – 75, with „ganz unsicheren Vorschlägen“. ḥsb.t … ı͗bd …ꜣḫ.t sw 16 m-sꜣ=w pꜣ ꜥq ltm
2=w wꜥb=w(?) s 2Cf. Kaplony-Heckel: Scil. „The land“. tꜣ mḏꜥ(.t) (?) pꜣ km swt(?)
3[_] rtb 11 mḏꜥ(.t) 9
3bmḥ 1½(?)
4 nꜣ ı͗gš=w ı͗rm=s(?) r Tꜣ-šr.t-Ḥr rtb 1
5Tꜣ-wrṱ pꜣ ntr Pr-ı͗w-lq 3After Vleeming, DBL in A. D. 2007 (2008). Original suggestion: Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pꜣ-ꜣlkꜣ(?). swntı͗=f rtb 1
6ı͗bd … ꜣḫ.t sw 3(?) m-bꜣḥ I͗mn n Pr-ı͗w-lq4After Vleeming, DBL in A. D. 2007 (2008). Original suggestion: Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pꜣ-ꜣlkꜣ(?).
7 Ta-wrš.t
8

1 All according to Kaplony-Heckel in AfP 49, 74 – 75, with „ganz unsicheren Vorschlägen“.
2 Cf. Kaplony-Heckel: Scil. „The land“.
3 After Vleeming, DBL in A. D. 2007 (2008). Original suggestion: Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pꜣ-ꜣlkꜣ(?).
4 After Vleeming, DBL in A. D. 2007 (2008). Original suggestion: Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pꜣ-ꜣlkꜣ(?).
1[xth regnal year, xth month of] inundation, 16th day. After this: The bread and the carob tree
2[///] They [caused? to] clean it. The mation(?) of the vineyard
3[_] 11 artabas (and) 9 matia wheat 3b| [///] 1 ½ cubits(?)
4[/// the Nub]ians … with it(?) against Senyris: [_] 1 artaba.
5[///] Thoeris, … for the god of Philae, as an exchange value: 1 artaba.
6[/// xth month of] inundation, 3rd day: … before Amun of Philae …
7[///] Taorseus … [///]
8[///]
P_12995_aussen_Altphot
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P_12995_Inventarbuch
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Pr-ı͗w-lq (places.xml#s15)
  • Pr-ı͗w-lq (places.xml#s15)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    9340 woman Senyris Tꜣ-šr.t-n-Ḥr 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;

     

    Pictures

    P_12995_aussen_Altphot
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    P_12995_Inventarbuch
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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 100248
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 88996
    Author Jan Moje
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 100248 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12995), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.