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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.
  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
Line Distance 97 x 70 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title school exercise with arithmetic sequences
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific | writing exercise
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
1
2-H̱nm 1 2.t 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
3-H̱nm 1 2.t 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
4 mle 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
5 1 2.t 4 5 6 mtr ḫm 1 2.t 3 4 5 6 7 8
6 n 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
convex
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

 

Dates

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

 

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.