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Ostr. Berlin P. 12261

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12261
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Publication Status unpublished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, medium brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 78 mm | 87 mm | 7 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Broken off at the bottom and probably on the right.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The ink is partly smeared and blurred, esp. lines 3-5.
Script, Primary Coptic Cursive
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting A very cursive script, difficult to read also due to its state of preservation.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5+x
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 80
Column Height (in mm) 78

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • (other)
Summary of Content Too little text is preserved and readable.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_12261_aussen
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_12261_innen
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Pictures

P_12261_aussen
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_12261_innen
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100166
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 100166 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12261), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Matthias Müller, Andrea Hasznos.