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Ostr. Berlin P. 12235

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12235
Publication Number ined.
Current Location magazine | ostraca depository
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Publication Status unpublished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:
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, red
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 43 mm | 119 mm | 5 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Broken off on all sides except for the upper, where the rim is intact.

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) Left, right and bottom part are broken off, so text is missing on three sides, the first line is visibly identifiable. The beginning and probably end of lines are missing, the rest is difficult to see because the ink is badly rubbed off/faded.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting A practised, though not very neat, document hand. Ligatures are used.
Comments on Text Layout Text only on the inside (concave) of the piece.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3+x
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) x+118+y
Column Height (in mm) 39+x
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | dept instrument
Summary of Content ...is writing; I owe you (?) [...]. I am prepared (ϩⲉⲧⲟⲓⲙⲟⲥ) to [give it back...]
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Script = Language

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
1ⲉⲕϫⲉ ⲛⲡⲁⲕⲱϣ ⲉⲧⲥϩⲁⲓ
2ϫⲉ ϯⲭⲣⲱⲥⲧⲉ ⲛⲁⲕ
3ϯⲟ ⲛ︦ϩⲉⲧⲟⲓⲙⲟⲥ ⲛ︦ⲧⲁⲧⲁⲁⲩ
concave
1(...) of Pakosh 1a name? who is wri(ting)
2(...) I owe you(?) ...
3(...) I am prepared to give (it/them back...)

1 a name?
P_12235_aussen
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_12235_innen
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

P_12235_aussen
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_12235_innen
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100169
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 100169 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12235), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Matthias Müller, Andrea Hasznos.