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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Berlin P. 12800

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12800
Publication Number	TAD D.7.27
Publication Permission Status	no permission for publication necessary
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	() [Trismegistos] Certainty:
Type of Discovery	excavation or purchase Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) Certainty:
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	excavation finds
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1906 and 1907
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) Certainty:

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	incomplete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	concave/convex
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8	6
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	Missive. Re Payment for Service
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	Context unclear due to damage. The service in question seems to be pruning/tying up/shearing.

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TAD (variants)

	cc
	1. [...]⸢נ⸣ [?] ◦[...]
	2. [...]◦ בידך[...]
	3. [... י]תנתנ לנ פ[...]
	4. [...]י הא צ{ד\|ר}{ד\|ר}⸢ת⸣[...]
	5. [... כ]ספ ש 𐡘𐡘 איתי ל⸢י⸣[...]
	6. [...] ⸢ש⸣ 𐡘 ר 𐡘𐡘 והא שאר[?]
	cv
	7. [...]{ת\|נ} ה[...]
	8. [...]{ל\|ט} כ{ד\|ר}ג{א\|י} [...]
	9. [...] ⸢ע⸣ל כספה [...]
	10. [... מל]כיה זי כתב [...]
	11. [...]יהבתמ עליהמ [...]
	12. [...]למחסה עלדבר כס[פ ...]
	13. [...]{א\|י}חיט עלינ ל⸢א⸣ שלח{ו\|ת\|◦\|נ}[...]
	14. [...]⸢אפ⸣ {א\|ע}ל ת{ת\|פ}{א\|ש}{ר\|י} לא של[ח ...]

CC

1	◦◦◦
2	◦ בידכ
3	תנתנ לנ פ
4	◦י הא צדדת
5	כספ ש 𐡘𐡘 איתי לי
6	מחר והא שאר

CV

1	◦◦
2	◦◦◦י
3	◦ כספה ◦
4	פיה זי כתב
5	יהבתמ עליהמ
6	למחסה עלדבר כספ
7	◦חיט עלינ לא שלח
8	אפ אל על ◦◦◦י ◦◦◦

CC

1	[...]◦◦◦[...]
2	[...]◦ in your (m.s. ?) hand[...]
3	[...]you shall give us P[...]
4	[...]◦Y. Surely I/you/she pruned/tied up/sheared(?)[...]
5	[... si]⸢l⸣ver, 2 š(eqels), bring to ⸢me⸣[...]
6	[...]⸢tomorr⸣ow, and surely (the) rest (of)[...]

CV

1	[...]◦◦[...]
2	[...] ◦◦◦Y [...]
3	[...]◦ his/her silver ◦[...]
4	[...]PYH which ⸢wr⸣ote[...]
5	[...]⸢I gave⸣ them to them
6	[... ]⸢to Maḥsah⸣. On account of this, (the) sil⸢v⸣[er ...]
7	[... ]shall inspect on our account. Did not send (word)[...]
8	[...]⸢Moreover,⸣ to ◦◦◦Y ◦◦◦[...]

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
37530	man	Maḥsah	מחסה	Aramaic, Imperial

Dates

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

Literature

Porten, Bezalel & Yardeni, Ada, Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, 4: Ostraca & assorted inscriptions. (D.7.27)

DatasetID	100709
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 100709 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12800), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore; Verena Lepper.