Ostr. Berlin P. 12237
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Metadata
Collection
| 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unpublished |
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) |
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 |
Text Basic Information
| 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. |
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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 |
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Text Content
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary
- documentary | dept instrument
- documentary | letter
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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 |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | ⳁ ⲁⲛⲟⲕ ϩⲁⲧⲣⲉ
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2 | | ⲉⲧⲥϩⲁⲓ̈ ⲉϥϥ|
3 | | ⲕⲁⲧⲁⲑⲉ ⲛ︦
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1 | | I Hatre (...)|
2 | | am writing as he (...) |
3 | | in the way of (...)
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1 | | (...) and I (...)|
2 | | (...) and Paulos (...)|
3 | | (...)...?...(...)
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| Places (read out from edition) |
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 2430 |
man |
Hatre |
ϩⲁⲧⲣⲉ |
Coptic |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
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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; |
Pictures
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Literature
| 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. |
