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Ostr. Berlin P. 39

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 39
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 Details "from the rubbish of the settlement"
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery purchase
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Erman, Adolf
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 (other)
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1886 and 1886
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Erman, Adolf
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, grey brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 71 mm | 89 mm | 8 mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation The upper right part is broken off. Left edge damaged. Surface slightly damaged.
Mounting (non [ostracon])
Restoration Activities Restaurierung abgeschlossen

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) All line beginnings broken off in undetermined extent. End of line 1 damaged.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text shows a broad lower margin. The left crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 36 0
Column Height (in mm) 38 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x36 x 38 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title lower part of document with countersigners preserved only
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content List of four men acting as countersigners, main (upper) part of document lost.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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x+1sẖ Ḥr-ḫb(?) 1Here nothing more can be lost, so this should be a rather short name. My suggestion given here is tentative and not completely sure. For this name see Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 830 – 831. This line x+1 should mention not a further countersigner, but the issuer of the entire receipt. Its lower line pitch is much larger than those between the three last lines containing the countersigners.
x+2sẖ Pꜣ-ı͗wı͗w
x+3sẖ Pa-Ḏḥwtı͗ 2Due to the matter mentioned below, the name in l. 3 must be rather short, the ink remnants at the break indicate to assume a small Pa- with caution here. (sꜣ) Pꜣ-šr-Mn
x+4sẖ Ns-pꜣy=w-tꜣ.wj sꜣ Wn-nfr 3The short stroke after the spatium in the last line eludes any reading. In my opinion it does not belong to the text and depicts random ink traces only.

1 Here nothing more can be lost, so this should be a rather short name. My suggestion given here is tentative and not completely sure. For this name see Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 830 – 831. This line x+1 should mention not a further countersigner, but the issuer of the entire receipt. Its lower line pitch is much larger than those between the three last lines containing the countersigners.
2 Due to the matter mentioned below, the name in l. 3 must be rather short, the ink remnants at the break indicate to assume a small Pa- with caution here.
3 The short stroke after the spatium in the last line eludes any reading. In my opinion it does not belong to the text and depicts random ink traces only.
R
x+1Countersigned by Har⸢chebis(?)⸣.
x+2⸢Countersigned by⸣ Paieus.
x+3[Countersigned by] ⸢Pa⸣thotes, son of Psemminis.
x+4[Countersigned] by Spotous, son of Onnophris. [_] ..?.. .
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12050 man Harchebis (P.39) Ḥr-ḫb pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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

 

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Literature

 

DatasetID 300017
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 300017 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 39), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.