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Ostr. Berlin P. 11999

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 11999
Publication Number lit math
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
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) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
Certainty:
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 1906 and 1906

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, yellow brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 125 mm | 90 mm | 11 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Text Layout 2 Kolumnen, Kol. I: 18 Zeilen; Kol. II: 11 Zeilenanfänge; andere Seite: unbeschriftet
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 29
Quantity of Columns 2

 

Text Content

Modern Title Geometrische Aufgabe
Text Types
  • scientific | math
Summary of Content geometrical exercise: inscribing a figure (?) in a circle (?), drawing of a circle with inscribed figure and corner designations
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
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2
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5
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7
8
1drawing of a figure inside a circle, corners are marked with letters
9ια πλεῦρον εἰς κύκλον
10ν ἐκ τῆς ἀπεναντίον
11 ει ἐκ το κέντρο εἰς τὰς
12θγ θβθα
13
14
15β ἄρα σιν
2
1
2περιφέρεια
3
4
5
6
7δύο
8ἴσηι
9τῆι
10
11

1 drawing of a figure inside a circle, corners are marked with letters
convex
1
2
3
4
5
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7
8
1drawing of a figure inside a circle, corners are marked with letters
9 side into a circle
10ν from the opposite
11 from the centre into ...
12 ΘΓ ΘΒ ΘΑ
13
14
15...
2
1
2circumference
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4
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6
7two
8equal
9the
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11

1 drawing of a figure inside a circle, corners are marked with letters
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
-299 BCE -200 BCE palaeographical dating;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 16499
last Change 29.07.2022
Berlpap 16499
Trismegistos 65672
Author BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Philip Schmitz
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 16499 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 11999), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Philip Schmitz.