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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Berlin P. 17818

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 17818
Publication Number	TAD D.7.28
Publication Permission Status	no permission for publication necessary
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	() [Trismegistos] Certainty:
Type of Discovery	(unknown) Certainty:
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	(unknown)

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	incomplete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Text Layout	It is possible that this was written on the CV side only, which is extremely rare for an Aramaic Ostracon.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines		5
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	Missive to Natan. Re Salt and 1 Package
Text Types	documentary documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	TAD reads Shabbat on line 4.

Text

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Translation

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TAD (variants)

	1. [?] שלמ נתנ כענ חזי ◦[?]
	2. [?]א 1 מלח בידכמ ומנ [...]
	3. [?]ש 1 ר 1 מאסרה ◦[?]
	4. [?] בשבה [...]

CV

1	שלמ נתנ כענ חזי
2	... מלח בידכמ
3	... כ 𐡘 מאסרה
4	...בה
5	...𐡜

CV

1	1. Greetings, Nathan. Now, look[...]
2	2. ... salt in your possession...[...]
3	3. ... 1 h(andful) (in a) package ...[...]
4	4. ... in it.
5	5. ...20

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
37535	man	Natan	נתנ	Aramaic, Imperial

Dates

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

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Literature

Porten, Bezalel & Yardeni, Ada, Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, 4: Ostraca & assorted inscriptions. (D.7.28)

DatasetID	100722
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	James D. Moore
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100722 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 17818), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.