Ostr. Berlin P. 12565

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12565
Publication Number	BGU VI 1470 lit
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty:
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Zucker, Friedrich (excavation director) Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	partage
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1907 and 1907

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, yellow brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	224 mm \| 135 mm \| 10 mm
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	left upper corner and right side broken off

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	concave (inside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	left upper corner and right side broken off
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, ptolemaic cursive, hand unknown.
Comments on Text Layout	Namensliste: zugehörig?
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	25
Quantity of Columns	2

Text Content

Modern Title	Various texts on one ostracon
Ancient Author of Text	Homer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary literary scientific \| writing exercise
Summary of Content	Various texts, mixed genre, school text? draft of a petition of a soldier (l. 1-6) Homer, Odyssee 1, 1-7 (l. 6-13) list of names (l. 14-25)
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

concave

1	Σωκ̣ράτε̣ι στρατηγῶι τῶν ἄνω τόπων ̣ ̣- 10 -
2	̣ ̣κ̣τ̣ος τοῦ Στράτωνος τῶν τεταγμένων ἐν Ἐλεφαν-
3	τίνηι στρατιωτῶν. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ
4	Ἀνδραγά̣θ̣ο̣υ τοῦ Σωπάτρου α- 10 -
5	̣ ἐν τῆι ἀγορᾶι ἐν το̣ῖ̣ς̣ τεμε- 10 -
6	μάρτυροι. Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε Μοῦσα πολύτρο-
7	πον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ πλάγχθη ἐπεὶ Τροίης
8	ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσεν, πολλ̣ῶν δ’ ἀνθρώ-
9	πων ἴδεν ἄστεα ὃν κατὰ θυμὸν, πολλὰ
10	δ’ ὅ γ’ ἐν πόντῳ πάθεν ἄλγεα καὶ νόον
11	ἔγνω ἀρνύμενος ἥν τε ψυχὴν καὶ νόστον
12	ἑταίρωιων. ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ ὡς ἑτάρους ἐρρύσατο ἱέμεν-
13	~~ος περ αὐτῶ̣ν̣ γὰ~~ρ σφε̣τ̣έ̣ρ̣ῃσιν

concave

14	Ἑρμιάναξ
15	Ὀννῶφρις
16	Ἐ̣νχολ̣μ̣ου
17	Ζμενκνε̣ῖ̣βις
18	Τπου̣ι̣ος
19	Γ̣εβιθίης
20	Θη̣ι̣βα̣ς
21	Τε̣λ̣η̣ιος
22	Πα̣λ̣α̣ί̣μ̣ων
23	Πασ̣τ̣ -?-
24	Τ̣α̣ -?-
25	̣ -?-
2
26	Ος̣ ̣ -?-
27	Τα ̣ -?-
28	Σεμ̣ -?-
29	Α̣ς̣ -?-
30	Σ -?-
31	̣ -?-

concave

1	To Sokrates, the strategos of the lower country ---
2	from ---ktes, son of Straton, stationed at Ele-
3	phantine, soldier. I have been wronged
4	by Andragathos, son of Sopatros, ---
5	--- in the market among the ---
6	witnesses. (¹in ll. 6-13 a quote of Homer, Odyssey 1, 1-7 with the vers ends changed in Odydssey 1, ll. 3 and 4, the amount of missing text in l. 13 of the ostracon is unclear, translation after Murray/Dimock 1919 ) Tell me, M[use, of the man of many]
7	devices, driven far away [after he had sacked of Troy]
8	the sacred citadel. Many were [the men]
9	whose cities he saw in his heart, [and many]
10	the woes he suffered upon the sea [and the mind,]
11	he learned seeking to win his own [life and the return]
12	of his comrades. Yet even so he did not save his [comrades, for all his]
13	desire, for through their own [
14	²Beginning of list of namesHermianax
15	Onnophris
16	Encholmos
17	Zmenkneibis
18	Tpouios
19	Gebithies
20	Theiba
21	Teleios
22	Palaimon
23	Past---
24	Ta---
25	---
2
26	Os---
27	Ta---
28	Sem---
29	As---
30	S---
31	---

¹ in ll. 6-13 a quote of Homer, Odyssey 1, 1-7 with the vers ends changed in Odydssey 1, ll. 3 and 4, the amount of missing text in l. 13 of the ostracon is unclear, translation after Murray/Dimock 1919
² Beginning of list of names

Places (read out from edition)

Ἐλεφαν- (places.xml#3)

τίνηι (places.xml#3)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4675	man	---ktos, son of Straton	- 10 - ̣ ̣κ̣τ̣ος Στράτων	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios V Epiphanes				-190 BCE	palaeographical dating, cf. BL VII, 21: before -190. Zur Datierung vgl. Thomas, Epistrategos, Bd. 1, 36 mit Anm. 177 und W. Clarysse, Notes on the use of the iota adscript in the third century B.C., CE 51, 1976, 150–166 (insb. 161) = BL VII 21; zu Z. 17 vgl. P. Viereck, BL II.1 10; J.-L. Fournet, Homère et les papyrus non littéraires, in: G. Bastianini - A. Casanova, I papiri omerici. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Firenze, 9–10 giugno 2011, Florenz 2012, 125–157 (insb. 127f.).;

Literature

DatasetID	16317
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	16317
Trismegistos	61247
Papyri.info	ddbdp/bgu;6;1470
Author	BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning; Ruth Duttenhöfer, Philip Schmitz
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 16317 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12565), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning; Ruth Duttenhöfer, Philip Schmitz.