Ostr. Berlin P. 10826
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Berlin P. 10826 |
| Publication Number |
ined. |
| Current Location |
magazine |
| 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unpublished |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: 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 |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt |
Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Object
| Object Type |
ostracon |
| Color |
pottery, red |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) |
96 mm | 107 mm | 8 mm |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
The upper left corner is broken off, hence the text is incomplete on convex side. On the concave side there is a greyish-blackish material on the surface which makes some of the letters badly or not visible; the upper right corner is missing here. |
Text Basic Information
| Localization of Text on Object |
two-sided |
| Inks and Pigments |
carbon ink monochrome black |
| Range of Preservation (Text) |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation (Text) |
On concave side contamination (greyish-black) |
| Script, Primary |
Coptic |
| Language, Primary |
Coptic |
| Comments on Handwriting |
The two sides are by the same hand. Practised documentary hand. |
| Comments on Text Layout |
4 lines on convex, 2 lines on concave side, probably belong together |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
x+4 |
2 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
83 |
103 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
55 |
20 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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Text Content
| Text Types |
- documentary
- documentary | account
- documentary | list
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| Summary of Content |
On the convex side: an account or list of things (products?) with numbers (written as numbers, not words), probably sacks are mentioned.
On the concave side: the same numbers (36 and 32) are present again, but this time written out as words. Reflecting on the list on the other side? Signalling that it is arranged? |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | ⲗ︦ⲋ︦|
2 | | ⲁⲗⲗⲟⲩ ⲗ︦ⲃ︦|
3 | | ⲗⲟⲅⲟⲩⲥ ⲧⲏⲣϥ ⲥϣ︦ϥ︦ⲉ|
4 | | ⲙⲛⲛ︦ⲥⲟⲕ
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1 | | ⲁⲉⲓⲧⲉ ⲙⲁⲃⲧⲁⲥⲉ ⲛ|
2 | | ⲁⲉⲓⲧⲉ ⲛⲉⲕ ⲙⲁⲃⲥⲛ︦ ⲛ
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1 | | thirty-six|
2 | | thirty-two|
3 | | the whole account: seventy|
4 | | with the sacks.
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1 | | I gave thirty-six of |
2 | | I gave you thirty-two of
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
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historical, social setting, other texts and archives from the area, palaeography; names, military titles, business affairs in the Coptic texts from Elephantine
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Literature
| DatasetID |
100147 |
| 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 100147 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 10826), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Matthias Müller, Andrea Hasznos. |
