Ostr. Berlin P. 12264
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Berlin P. 12264 |
| Current Location |
magazine |
| Comments on Inventory |
registered as existing during revision (1963) |
| Publication Permission Status |
(unknown) |
| Publication Status |
published |
Origin / Provenance
| Ancient Provenance Site |
Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high |
| Ancient Provenance District |
Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Discovery |
archaeological excavation
Certainty: high |
| Finder (= First Purchaser) |
Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
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 |
partage |
| Date of Acquisition for the Intitution |
between 1907 and 1907 |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) |
(not relevant)
Certainty: high |
Object
| Object Type |
ostracon |
| Color |
pottery, red |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) |
71 mm | 97 mm | 6 mm |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
Damages of the lateral rims. |
| Mounting |
(non [ostracon]) |
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) |
The upper and lower parts are broken off. Beginnings of the first six lines lost. |
| Script, Primary |
Late Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Roman Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Wide line pitch.
The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
10+y |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
97 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
79 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
97 x 70 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
school exercise with arithmetic sequences |
| Ancient Archives |
none |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- scientific | writing exercise
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| Summary of Content |
School exercise with names and arithmetic sequences of the numbers from 1 till 16. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text |
Hand copy of one line in the inventory book. |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | |
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2 | | -H̱nm 1 2.t 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
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3 | | -H̱nm 1 2.t 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
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4 | |
mle 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
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5 | |
1 2.t 4 5 6 mtr ḫm 1 2.t 3 4 5 6 7 8
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6 | |
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
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7 | | 1 2.t 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 |
8 | | 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
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9 | | 5 6 7 8 9 10
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10 | | 5
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1 | | [///] |
2 | | [///]chnoumis. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 [///] |
3 | | [///]chnoumis. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 [///] |
4 | | ..?.. [///]1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 [///] |
5 | | [///]..?.. 1 2.t 4 5 6 Erroneous! 1 2.t 3 4 5 6 7 8 [///] |
6 | | [///]..?.. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 [///] |
7 | | [///] 1 2.t 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 |
8 | | [///] 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 [///] |
9 | | [///] 5 6 7 8 9 10 [///] |
10 | | [///] 5 ..?..
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 550 |
man |
[///]chnoumis |
[///]-H̱nm |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Roman Period |
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-30 BCE 211 CE |
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Pictures
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Literature
| DatasetID |
100102 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
51858 |
| Author |
Jan Moje |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 100102 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12264), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
