Ostr. Berlin P. 1003

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 1003
Current Location	magazine
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	find (unspecified) Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Brugsch, Heinrich 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	purchase
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 30 4 1859 and 30 4 1859
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Brugsch, Heinrich Certainty: high

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, dark red
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	146 mm \| 110 mm \| 16 mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Slightly damaged at all rims, surface partly abraded.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Heavily faded and partly lost.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	10	14
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	95	95
Column Height (in mm)	135	135
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	95 x 135	95 x 135

Modern Title	list of priests on-duty
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| list \| name list
Summary of Content	List of names of priests on-duty in the temple, presumably the Chnoum temple.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	¹Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
2	H̱nm-ı͗w sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ
3	ı͗w ı͗w=f
4-12

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.

concave

convex

1	⸢..?..⸣
2	Chenemeus, son of Psenpelaias,
3	he ⸢..?..⸣
4-12	⸢..?..⸣

concave

cc 1	⸢..?..⸣⸢///⸣
cc 2	⸢///⸣
cc 3	⸢///⸣
cc 4	⸢..?..⸣
cc 5	⸢..?..⸣
cc 6	Pelaias, son of Petechnoumis.
cc 7	Bienchis, son of Pachnoumis, son of Harekysis.
cc 8	⸢..?..⸣
cc 9	Pachnoumis, son of Bienchis, son of Pelaias.
cc 10	Pachnoumis, son of ⸢..?..⸣.
cc 11	⸢..?..⸣chnoumis
cc 12	Pasenis, son of Petechnoumis
cc 13	Pachnoumis, son of ⸢..?..⸣.
cc 14	⸢..?..⸣

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
24545	man	Bienchis, son of Pachnoumis, son of Harekysis	Bꜥy-ꜥnḫ sꜣ Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Ḥr-ı͗gš	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty				-332 BCE -30 BCE	Dating by palaeography. Dating by content. Dating by prosopography.;

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DatasetID	300014
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 300014 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 1003), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography).