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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Berlin P. 12246 |
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Publication Status | unpublished |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, yellow brown |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 92 mm | 148 mm | 6 mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | all sides damaged; surface chipped in several places; glued together from two pieces |
Localization of Text on Object | one-sided | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
Script, Primary | Coptic Cursive | |
Language, Primary | Coptic | |
Comments on Handwriting | A very cursive hand with many ligatures. Based on palaeography this piece seems to be later than the majority of the Elephantine ostraca. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | x+11+y | |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | |
Line Lenght (in mm) | x+148 | |
Column Height (in mm) | x+70+y | |
Height of Line / Letter |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Agreement or letter? The writer`s identification contains "from/of Elephantine"; addressee seems to be Matthaios; writer will pay back (ⲁⲡⲟⲗⲟⲅⲓⲍⲉ) (a debt?); rent is mentioned |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
2500 | man | Matthias | ⲙⲁⲑⲑ[ⲁⲓⲟⲥ] | Coptic |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
palaeography; |
DatasetID | 100178 |
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 100178 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12246), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Matthias Müller, Andrea Hasznos. |