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Ostr. Berlin P. 11282

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 11282
Publication Number inedit
Current Location magazine | ostraca depository
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Zucker, Friedrich (excavation director)
Certainty: high
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 excavation finds
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1908 and
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Zucker, Friedrich (excavation director)
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Borchardt, Ludwig
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating of Object The 1st-3rd AH/ 7th-9th CE centuries
Dating between 641 and 913
Criteria for Dating Based on the paleography, for example the letter alif bends to the right, which characterized the papyrus documents dating from before the third century.
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Broken off on the left, top, and bottom.

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) The ink is faded /rubbed in several places, thus text is difficult to see; some ink stains existed , Unknown amount of text is missing on top and bottom
Script, Primary Arabic
Language, Primary Arabic
Comments on Handwriting Not very neat handwriting.
Comments on Text Layout The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Agricultural register
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list
Summary of Content List of personal names and qīrāṭs number
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Acticvity of woman: Debtor - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man
Religion Islam

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
1عشر ونصف قيراط
2على بنت حسين
3اربعة ونصف ابو الحسن في
4نصف قيراط
5اسحق في قيراط ونصــف
concave
1ten half qīrāṭ [///]
2On bt. Ḥussaīn [///]
3Four and a half Abū al-Ḥasan in [///]
4Half qīrāṭ
5Isḥāq in qīrāṭ and half [///]
310486_S1_001
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11282_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
16790 man Abū al-Ḥasan ابو الحسن Arabic

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
21 AH 641 CE Based on the paleography.;

 

Pictures

310486_S1_001
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11282_S2_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 310486
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Ahmed Kamal
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 310486 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 11282), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.