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Ostr. Berlin P. 10830

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 10830
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Publication Status unpublished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 brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 55 mm | 64 mm | 6 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken on all four sides

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) Only two incomplete lines and remnants of a rubbed off third can be seen, as the ostracon is broken.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting A rather chaotic, messy hand, with ligatures and possibly corrections.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3+x
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 60 + x
Column Height (in mm) 48 + y
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
  • scientific | writing exercise
Summary of Content Writing exercise or a note, letter about having received the writings/letters from someone.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
1ϯ ⲁⲓϫⲓⲛⲉⲥϩⲁⲓ ⲛ
2ⲕⲥϩⲁⲓ ⲛⲧⲁ
3ⲛⲁⲛ
concave
1I have received the writings of ...
2you are writing ...
3to us ...
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Literature

 

DatasetID 100186
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 100186 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 10830), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Matthias Müller, Andrea Hasznos.