Ostr. Berlin P. 38

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 38
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)	74 mm \| 64 mm \| 8 mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	The left part is broken off.
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)	Line endings broken off in undetermined extent. Text partially faded.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Script, additional A	Late Hieratic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire (preserved) surface of the potsherd.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	60	0
Column Height (in mm)	70	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	60+y x 79	0

Modern Title	list of slaves connected with payment
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| list
Summary of Content	List of female slaves connected with payment.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Woman Man
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: beneficiary / deliverer of payment - Identifier of woman: none

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

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x+4	Sꜣ.t-Wsı͗r (Hieratic) 40 convex
x+5	Ta-ꜣs.t-ršy ¹For the reading of the last lines I am indebted to the participiants of the Demotic Summer School 2018 in Munich. 40
x+6	Tfn

¹ For the reading of the last lines I am indebted to the participiants of the Demotic Summer School 2018 in Munich.

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
22920	woman	Senobastis	Tꜣ-šr.t-n-Bꜣst.t	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Roman Period				-30 BCE 211 CE	;

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DatasetID	300018
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); Verena Lepper
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 300018 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 38), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Verena Lepper.