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Ostr. Berlin P. 12242

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12242
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Publication Status unpublished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:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, red
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 50 mm | 82 mm | 7 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Broken off on all sides except for the upper, where the rim is intact.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The letters are very thin and the ink is badly rubbed off/faded, very difficult to read/see.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Very thin letters written with a thin calamos. Very faded. From what can be seen, it is a practised document hand.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4+x
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) x+82+y
Column Height (in mm) 40+x
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • (other)
Summary of Content Unclear; line 2: the verb "complete"
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
1ϯⲧⲁⲙⲁⲙ
2ϫⲱⲕ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ϫⲉ
3 ϥ ⲡⲉⲧ
4
concave
1(...) ...?...
2(...) complete because (...)
3(...) ...?...
4(...) ...?...
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Literature

 

DatasetID 100175
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 100175 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12242), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Matthias Müller, Andrea Hasznos.