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Ostr. Berlin P. 10742

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 10742
Publication Number BGU VI 1469
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) Rubensohn, Otto (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 1906 and 1906

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, red brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 93 mm | 100 mm | 4 mm
Dating between -99 and -1
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken at right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, cursive, hand unknown
Comments on Text Layout 4 lines, other side uninscribed
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title document
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content Document of incertain content; Petseus, son of Peteesis, grandson? of Kassandros, and the great god are mentioned. dedication?
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)
Comment on Religion only "the great god" is mentioned

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Πετσεοῦς Πετεήσιος τοῦ(?)
2Κασσάνδρου εἰς π̣ο̣[ -?- ]
3ηρα θεοῦ μεγίστου.
4̣ (?)
convex
1Petseus, son of Peteesis, grandson? of
2Kassandros, for the po---?
3---? of the great god.
4(sign or figure?)
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8090 not applicable (no further persons mentioned) (no further persons mentỈoned) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
-99 BCE -1 BCE palaeographical dating;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 2875
last Change 29.07.2022
Berlpap 02875
Trismegistos 7364
Author BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning; Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 2875 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 10742), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning; Ruth Duttenhöfer.