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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. Berlin P. 12241 |
| 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| Publication Status | unpublished |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) | 61 mm | 95 mm | 5 mm |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | Broken off on the left and at the bottom. The rim is well preserved on the right-hand side. |
| Localization of Text on Object | one-sided | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | Unknown amount of text is lost due to the fragmentary nature of the ostracon, the ink is rather well preserved but rubbed off/faded is some places. | |
| Script, Primary | Coptic | |
| Language, Primary | Coptic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | A practised document hand, cursive with ligatures. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 5+x | |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | x+57 | |
| Column Height (in mm) | 88+x | |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Not much of the text remains, so the contents are not clear. Might be a letter based on the staurogramm in line 1, but also a list (possibly within a letter) with some products or objects, and maybe names. "Coverlet" (ⲗⲱⲧⲓⲥ i.e. ⲗⲱⲇⲓⲝ) can be read in line 4. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
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1 Staurogramm: signalling the beginning of a letter/list. 2 Greek loanword: λωδιξ 3 Possibly a name as in P.12235 |
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 2525 | man | Pakosh | ⲡⲁⲕⲱϣ | Coptic |
| P_12241_aussen |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
| P_12241_innen |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
| DatasetID | 100174 |
| 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 100174 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12241), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Matthias Müller, Andrea Hasznos. |
