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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Publication Status unpublished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.
  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

 

Text Content

Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | dept instrument
  • documentary | letter
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
concave
1ⳁ ⲁⲛⲟⲕ ϩⲁⲧⲣⲉ
2ⲉⲧⲥϩⲁⲓ̈ ⲉϥϥ
3ⲕⲁⲧⲁⲑⲉ ⲛ︦
convex
1ⲁⲩⲁ ⲁⲩⲱ ϯϣ
2ⲙⲛ︦ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ
3ⲡⲟⲩⲧⲁ

concave
1I Hatre (...)
2am writing as he (...)
3in the way of (...)
convex
1(...) and I (...)
2(...) and Paulos (...)
3(...)...?...(...)
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
2430 man Hatre ϩⲁⲧⲣⲉ Coptic

 

Dates

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;

 

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.