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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. Berlin P. 11283 |
| Publication Number | inedit |
| Current Location | magazine | ostraca depository |
| Publication Permission Status | permission for publication upon enquiry only |
| Publication Status | unpublished |
| 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 Type | ostracon |
| Dating of Object | The 3rd AH/ 9th CE century |
| Dating | between 815 and 913 |
| Criteria for Dating | Based on the paleography. |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | Broken on all except for the upper side, where the original rim can be seen |
| Localization of Text on Object | concave/convex (inside/outside) | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | The black ink and so the writing is well visible. On concave the beginning and the end of the second line is missing, and I don't know the number of the missing lines in the bottom due to the fragmentary nature of the piece. On convex, only the remains of the end of three lines are exist. | |
| Script, Primary | Arabic | |
| Language, Primary | Arabic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | Each text was written by a different hand, on concave the text is written with a flowing hand with a medium-thick pen in thuluth, on convex the text was written with not a very neat handwriting | |
| Comments on Text Layout | On concave, there is a big margin on the top and medium space between the two lines. On convex, the text was placed in the end of the upper left side, and the rest of the surface is blank | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 3 | 2 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Modern Title | Account of money |
| Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown [not mentioned in text]) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | An account of money, on concave and convex the number of dinars are mentioned. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text | Dots didn't used, some Arabic calligraphy rules have been shown, The letter “rāʾ” of dīnār in the third line on convex was written like the letter “nwn”. |
| Multilingualism | Script = Language Monolingual |
| Religion | Islam |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| 201 AH | 816 CE | Based on the paleography it can be dated to the 3rd AH /9th CE century.; |
| 310487_S1_001 |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| 310487_S2_001 |
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| Reserved Copyright |
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID | 310487 |
| 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 310487 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 11283), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal. |
