Ostr. Berlin P. 12233
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Berlin P. 12233 |
| 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unpublished |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) |
72 mm | 101 mm | 6 mm |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
Broken off on all sides except top, but text is missing only on the right |
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) |
The ink is strongly rubbed off/faded so some letters are hardly visible |
| Script, Primary |
Coptic |
| Language, Primary |
Coptic |
| Comments on Handwriting |
A practised or semi-practised hand, quite regular and neat uncials, slightly leaning to the right, no ligatures. |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Fragment of a plate, only inner (concave) side written on |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
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5 |
| Quantity of Columns |
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1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
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69+x |
| Column Height (in mm) |
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47 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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Text Content
| Text Types |
- scientific
- scientific | writing exercise
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| Summary of Content |
Numbers written out with words rather than abbreviated with letters, probably a (writing) exercise:
twenty-five and twenty...
twenty-one...
fifteen...
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| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: ) |
| Comments on Text |
Most probably education, school context; practising numbers and how to write them. |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
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1 | | ϫⲟⲩⲧⲏ ⲙⲛ︦ ϫⲟⲩⲧ|
2 | | ϫⲟⲩⲧⲟⲩⲉ ⲟ|
3 | | ⲙⲛⲧⲏ ⲟⲛ|
4 | | ⲛ︦ⲧⲁⲛⲟⲩ|
5 | | ⲟⲛⲕ
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1 | | twenty-five and twenty...|
2 | | twenty-one ...|
3 | | fifteen...
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Dates
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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 |
100168 |
| 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 100168 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12233), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Matthias Müller, Andrea Hasznos. |
