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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 |
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 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 |
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 |
Modern Title | lower part of document with countersigners preserved only |
Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||
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. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
12050 | man | Harchebis (P.39) | Ḥr-ḫb | 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.; |
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. |