Ostr. Berlin P. 10834
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Metadata
Collection
| 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unpublished |
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) |
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 |
Text Basic Information
| 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. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
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6+x |
| Quantity of Columns |
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1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
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x+69+y |
| Column Height (in mm) |
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50+x |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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Text Content
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary
- documentary | dept instrument
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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 |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
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1 | | [...]ithos (son of) Kalasir[e]|
2 | | (acknowledge?) that I owe (you)|
3 | | ... if God so appoints ...|
| | (I will pay back) without dispute|
5 | | Khoiakh 4 tre[mis]|
6 | | (written by?) David, son of Mena
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Dates
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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 |
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. |
