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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Publication Status | unpublished |
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 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. |
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 Types |
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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||
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1 a name? |
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Places (read out from edition) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
palaeographical dating; |
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. |