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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Berlin P. 12237 |
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Publication Status | unpublished |
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 Type | ostracon |
Color | pottery, red |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 47 mm | 92 mm | 4 mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Broken off on all sides except on the upper, the rim is intact |
Localization of Text on Object | convex/concave | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | The ink on the convex side is somewhat faded / rubbed off. On the concave side it is very sharp and well preserved. | |
Script, Primary | Coptic | |
Language, Primary | Coptic | |
Comments on Handwriting | Relatively large, readable, well separated letters, although not very neat. Trema is used. Alpha is open on top. | |
Comments on Text Layout | The text begins on the inside (concave) and continues on the outside (convex). Same hand. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 3+x | 3+y |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 89 | 87+x |
Column Height (in mm) | 34 | 34+x |
Height of Line / Letter |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Fragment of a letter or debt acknowledgement, very fragmentary, not possible to determine. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||
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ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
2430 | man | Hatre | ϩⲁⲧⲣⲉ | Coptic |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
historical, social setting, other texts and archives from the area, palaeography; names, military titles, business affairs in the Coptic texts from Elephantine; |
DatasetID | 100170 |
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 100170 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12237), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Matthias Müller, Andrea Hasznos. |