Ostr. Berlin P. 12916
Verena M. Lepper
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Jan Moje
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Daniel A. Werning
Sandro Schwarz
Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin
Berlin
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Berlin
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Papyrussammlung
Ostr. Berlin P. 12916
Ostr. Berlin P. 12916
List of persons and their payments or income. Nothing is mentioned about the context of these transactions.
convex (outside)
list of persons delivered or received money
clay | fired
ostracon
- object's condition: complete
Complete.
- text's condition: complete
Complete.
(non [ostracon])
Egypt
Upper Egypt, 1st nome
Elephantine
Zucker, Friedrich (excavation director)
Egypt
Upper Egypt, 1st nome
Elephantine
Egypt
Upper Egypt, 1st nome
Elephantine
partage
(not relevant)
permission for publication assigned
magazine
registered as existing during revision (1963)
-
-
(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Amulet charm
documentary
account
horizontal format
vertical format
administrative document
bill
commentary
contract
horizontal format
documentary | contract | promissory note
vertical format
dedication
dept instrument
diary
foundation charter
hypomnema
horizontal format
vertical format
indictment
Documentary | Jar Label
legal document
letter
"Urkundenformat"
horizontal format
letter address
private
transversa carta
vertical format
list
name list
onomasticon
product list
marriage contract
names
note
oath
vertical format
offer
documentary | official
documentary | official letter
Order for payment or delivery
documentary | order to arrest
petition to the king (enteuxis, mkmk)
proskynema
act of worhsip wšt.t
name
Documentary | Ration List
receipt
tax receipt
tombstone
will/testament
Documentary | Wooden Label
drawing
commentary
vigniette
literary
biography
commentary
eulogy
historic
lamentation
narrative
prose
verse
poetry
wisdom
instruction
proverb(s)
(no inscription)
(other)
petition to the emperor
Prescription
religious
Christian
commentary
dedication
divination
litany
magical
oracular inquiry
Gnostic
Islamic
religious | Islamic | amulet
dedication
divination
litany
magical
oracular inquiry
ritual
Jewish
dedication
divination
litany
magical
oracular inquiry
ritual
Manichaic
Mesopotamian
polytheistic Aramaian
polytheistic Egyptian
dedication
divination
litany
love charm
magical
oracular inquiry
ritual
unclear religion
dedication
divination
litany
magical
oracular inquiry
religious-literary
Christian
Biblical
New Testament
Old Testament
commentary
eulogy
hymn
lithurgical
monastical
myth
patristic
prayer
Gnostic
commentary
eulogy
hymn
prayer
Islamic
commentary
eulogy
hymn
myth
prayer
Qurʾānic
Jewish
commentary
eulogy
Hebrew Bible
hymn
myth
prayer
Manichaic
commentary
eulogy
hymn
prayer
Mesopotamian
commentary
eulogy
hymn
myth
prayer
polytheistic Aramaian
commentary
eulogy
hymn
myth
prayer
polytheistic Egyptian
Book of the Dead
Coffin Text
commentary
eulogy
hymn
myth
prayer
Pyramid Text
unclear religion
commentary
eulogy
hymn
myth
prayer
scientific
astronomy
Book of Dream
commentary/gloss
math
calculation
essay
geometry
medicine
essay
prescription
scientific | Alchemical presciption
scientific | astrology
horoscop
writing exercise
(unclear)
Akkadian
Arabic
Aramaic, Imperial
Carian
Egyptian
Coptic
Akhmimic
Bohairic
Fayumic
Middle Egyptian / Oxyrhynkhitic
Old Coptic
Sahidic
Sub-Akhmimic
Demotic
Early Demotic
Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Ptolemaic - Roman Demotic
Ptolemaic Demotic
Roman Demotic
Late Egyptian
Later Egyptian
Middle Egyptian
Middle Egyptian, Classical
Middle Egyptian, Late
Neo-Middle Egyptian
Old Egyptian
pre-Coptic Egyptian
pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek
Ptolemaic
Egyptian languages
English
German
Greek, Ancient
Greek, Ancient or Coptic
Hebrew
Hebrew, Ancient
Late Aramaic
Latin
Libyan
Mandaic
Meroitic
Nabataean
(none)
(not identified)
Nubian
Old Nubian
Old Persian
Pahlavi
Phoenician
Semitic language
Syriac
Uninscribed
Late Aramaic
Arabic
Aramaic, Imperial
Carian
Coptic
Coptic Cursive
Coptic Half-uncial
Coptic Uncial
Egyptian
Cursive Hieroglyphs
Demotic
Early Demotic
Early to Middle Demotic
Late Demotic
Middle Demotic
Middle to Late Demotic
Hieratic
Abnormal Hieratic
Archaic Hieratic
Late Hieratic
"Späthieratische Buchschrift"
Middle Hieratic
"Mittelhieratische Buchschrift"
"Mittelhieratische Kanzleischrift"
New Kingdom Hieratic
"Neuhieratische Buchschrift"
"Neuhieratische Kanzleischrift"
Old Hieratic
Hieroglyphs
Cryptography
Hieroglyphs | Late Period
Ptolemaic
Greek
Greek or Coptic
Hebrew
Latin
Meroitic Cursive
Meroitic Hieroglyphs
(none)
(not identified)
Pahlavi
Phoenician
Syriac
uninscribed
Complete.
Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t For information on the writings of the amounts of money I am indebted to S. Lippert, Montpellier.sꜣ Hrı͗=w
Names with this form of writing are also being interpreted as Hrj-Ptḥ, cf. Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 746 – 748, 772.
ḥḏ dbn For a discussion on the reading of such signs I am indebted to BRIAN MUHS, Chicago. For Roman forms of ḥḏ cf. Wångstedt in OrSu 31-32 (1982-83), 25 Kat. XV. 10
H̱nm-ı͗w 7-ı͗rm-½ Transcription and translation according to S. Lippert (paper presented on the 13th ICDS in Leipzig 2017), this part must be in obols (not mentioned) and represents the equivalent to the amount of 1 silver drachma = ½ silver kite.
Pꜣ-šr-Pꜣ-Swrs This name seems to be a combination of an Egyptian with a Greek one and is otherwise not known to me. For the Greek part cf. the currently only once attested name Swr ( Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 909.), which can be a transliteration of a Greek name Σούλις/ Σῦλις (The form Σουλιος seems to be a nominative. Cf. also the once attested female name Σουλωις: Clarysse / Thompson, P. Count (2006), 32,37, from Early Ptolemaic Arsinoites.). Once attested from the cemetery of Sohag is the female name Σενψούλις from the 4th Century CE (SB 10 10501,2) , which is given in Trismegistos as deriving from “Tꜣ-šr.t-n-..?..”. The – currently unattested – male equivalent to this female name should be Psenpsoulis/*Πσενπσούλις, cf. the Name Πσούλις with its several varying Greek writing forms. This will fit well the name attested on the ostracon here. Πσούλις is transferred by the Egyptian scribe in Pꜣ-Swrs, possibly in unawareness of the original nature of the name. According to this, we can reconstruct the female name from Sohag as being Tꜣ-šr.t(-n)-Pꜣ-Swrs.
(ḥḏ) qd ½ Curiously, the group for the currency kite is written behind the cipher. This can be found on some other Elephantine accounts and should be a local variant, possibly deriving from gs qd = “half of a kite”. It is remarkable that the same amount in l. 2 and 3 is written in a different way, but due to the information of S. LIPPERT from her material from Hut-Repit that there was a rule that sums lower than 5 stater were given in stater, but in contrast sums higher than 5 stater were written in deben+kite. ḥḏ dbn 2½
dmḏ (ḥḏ) qd 1 ḥḏ dbn 12 ½ It is unusual that the smaller amount kite is noted before the higher amount of the deben and not behind as usual. This can be found also on Ostr. Berlin P. 12954 (stater before deben), seems to be a local variant in Roman Elephantine.
Harpaesis, son of Herieus: [_] 10 deben.
Chenemeus: [_] 7½ (obols).
Psenpsoulis [_] ½ (silver) kite and 2½ deben.
Total: 1 silver kite and <1>2½ deben.