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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Publication Status | unpublished |
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 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. |
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 | |
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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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
historical, social setting, other texts and archives from the area, palaeography; names, military titles, business affairs in the Coptic texts from Elephantine ; |
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. |