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Ostr. Berlin P. 12244

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12244
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Publication Status unpublished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) 50 mm | 62 mm | 4 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Broken off on all sides except for the upper, where the rim is almost intact.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting A practised document hand, cursive, superlinear stroke is used.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5+x
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) x+62+y
Column Height (in mm) 45+x
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | dept instrument
Summary of Content Too fragmentary to gain much information. Sender "agrees" to owe "three" of something to someone (seems to be the usual formula).
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
1ⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ ⲕⲉ
2ⲛ ϫⲉ ϯϩⲟⲙⲟⲗⲟⲅⲉⲓ
3ⲙⲛ︦ ϣⲟⲙⲛ︦ⲧ
4ⲧⲟⲩ ⲛ︦ⲧⲟⲟ
5ⲁⲩⲛⲁ
concave
1(...) ...?...
2(...) that I agr(ee)
3(...)and three (...)
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Literature

 

DatasetID 100176
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 100176 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12244), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Matthias Müller, Andrea Hasznos.