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Ostr. Berlin P. 1137

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 1137
Publication Number TAD D.7.17
Comments on Inventory 1963 vorhanden
Publication Permission Status no permission for publication necessary
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site () [Trismegistos]
Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution purchase
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Erman, Adolf
Certainty:

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave/convex
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Die Tinte ist tw. verblasst, die Oberfläche der Außenseite insgesamt stark gedunkelt.
Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting grober Duktus
Comments on Text Layout Recto: 6 Z.; Verso: 7.Z.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 13

 

Text Content

Modern Title Missive. Re Dream Interpretation and Instructions for Children
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content For discussion see Moore, "Socio-Historical Observations."
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Gender Woman
Comment on Gender Woman dream interpreter. Reference to children made.

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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1כענ הלו חלמ
2𐡘 חזית ומנ
3עדנא הו אנה
4חממ שגא
5תחזי יח
6מליה
7שלמי
CV
1כענ הנ צבתי
2אל תזבני המו
3יאכלו ינקיא
4הלו לא
5שאר
6קטינ
CC
1Now, indeed, (2) 1 (1) dream,
2I saw, and since
3that time it (continues). I am
4increasingly hot.
5-6May Yaḥmolyah see to
7my welfare.
CV
1Now, if my ornaments (are there),
2you must not sell them.
3May the children eat.
4Indeed no
5cucumbers
6remain.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
37495 woman Yaḥmolyah יחמליה Aramaic, Imperial

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
-499 BCE -475 BCE ;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 100487
last Change 29.07.2022
Author James D. Moore; Verena Lepper
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100487 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 1137), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore; Verena Lepper.