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Ostr. Berlin P. 12008

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12008
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) 73 mm | 46 mm | 11 mm
Dating between -300 and -201
Range of Preservation incomplete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Text Layout 12002: 14 Zeilen; P. 12007: 12 Zeilen; P. 12008: mind. 8 lines, other side uninscribed
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8

 

Text Content

Modern Title Geometrische Aufgaben
Text Types
  • scientific | math
Summary of Content geometrical exercise: even dodecahedron
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1
2lλ ιεν ἐστιν
3β καὶ τῆς β
4κθπ
5
6
7
8
9
10πλεύροις κα
11 πυραμὶς κ
12δωδεκάεδρον πυραμίδα
convex
1
2... is ...
3... and of ...
4...
5
6
7
8
9
10... sides ...
11... pyramid ...
12... twelve sided pyramid ...
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

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

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 16500
last Change 29.07.2022
Berlpap 16500
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 16500 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12008), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Philip Schmitz.