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Ostr. Berlin P. 12234

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12234
Publication Number ined.
Current Location magazine | ostraca depository
Comments on Inventory 1963 available; 2014 available
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty:
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, red brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 60 mm | 119 mm | 5 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Broken off on the left, right and bottom; lost text on the left on the convex, and on the right on the concave side, and also at the bottom

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex/concave
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Ink and thus letters rubbed off in several places; some ink stains
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting A practised document hand, not very neat writing, with ligatures.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7+x 3
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 118 117+x
Column Height (in mm) 56 39
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Addressee is a woman, she should send certain things to writer, and also come to the north.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Woman
Comment on Gender addressee is female

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ϩⲛ︦ⲛⲓⲁ ϩⲉⲧϩⲉⲧⲟⲧⲉ
2 ϥ ⲛⲁⲓ̈ ⲁⲙⲟⲩ ⲁϩⲏ︦ⲧ
3ⲁⲥⲡⲁⲡⲧⲉϣⲉ ⲛϩⲁⲗⲁ
4ⲉϫⲟϯⲙⲟ
5
6ϫⲥⲩ
7ⲉ
concave
1ⲛⲧⲉϫⲁⲩⲥⲟⲩ ⲛⲁⲓ̈ ⲉⲑⲁ
2ⲙⲁϩⲉ ϫⲁⲩ ⲛⲁ ϩⲁⲧⲧⲉ
3ϫⲁⲩⲥⲟⲩ ⲁϩ︦ⲉ︦

convex
1(...) from you (fem.)
2(...) to me. Come northward
31Lines 3-7 are unclear.

1 Lines 3-7 are unclear.
concave
1and you (fem.sing.) send them to me (...)
2cubit, send (?)
3send them to (...)
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Literature

 

DatasetID 100070
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Daniel Werning, Matthias Müller, Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100070 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12234), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Matthias Müller, Andrea Hasznos.