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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Berlin P. 10834 |
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Publication Status | unpublished |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) | 71 mm | 87 mm | 5 mm |
Dating | between 395 and |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Broken off on all sides except on the top, which is the rim of the vessel. |
Comments on Object | linke obere Ecke und rechter Teil fehlen |
Localization of Text on Object | concave (inside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | On right and left side broken off, so an unknown amount of text is missing. The remaining text is relatively well-preserved and visible. | |
Script, Primary | Coptic | |
Language, Primary | Coptic | |
Comments on Handwriting | A practised documentary hand, rather cursive, with some ligatures. Not very neat, but well readable. Hand of David, son of Mena, also signed. | |
Comments on Text Layout | The writing is on a fragment of a plate, only on the inner (concave) side. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 6+x | |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | |
Line Lenght (in mm) | x+69+y | |
Column Height (in mm) | 50+x | |
Height of Line / Letter |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Somebody acknowledges that he/she owes another person, and that he/she will pay it back without dispute. The usual formulae are used for this debt acknowledgement. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: ) |
Comments on Text | Scribe (and/or witness) is David, son of Mena, who is known from other documents as well: P. 14782, P. 14781 (witness); and P. 14791 and P. 14793 where he uses only David. |
Multilingualism | Script = Language |
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ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
2405 | man | David, son of Mena, deacon + scribe | ⲇⲁⲩⲉⲓⲇ ⲙⲏⲛⲁ | Coptic |
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 | 100151 |
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 100151 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 10834), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Matthias Müller, Andrea Hasznos. |