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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. Berlin P. 12266 |
| 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| Publication Status | unpublished |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) | Rubensohn, Otto (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 1907 and |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director) Certainty: high |
| Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) | Borchardt, Ludwig Certainty: high |
| Object Type | ostracon |
| Dating of Object | The 2nd-3rd AH/ 8th-9th CE centuries |
| Dating | between 718 and 913 |
| Criteria for Dating | Based on the paleography. |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | Broken on the top and left side. |
| Localization of Text on Object | concave (inside) | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | Text is missing on the top and left side. | |
| Script, Primary | Arabic | |
| Language, Primary | Arabic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | On the concave side five lines were written by a cursive, practiced hand with a medium-thick pen in black ink. | |
| Comments on Text Layout | On concave the text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon, Except for the last third of the bottom which is blank, and convex is blank also. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 5 | |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Modern Title | Private letter |
| Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown [not mentioned in text]) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Business letter request taking dinar for kharāj. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text | l-ī in line two was written without yāʾ (like lāʾm). |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Religion | Islam |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| 101 AH | 719 CE | Based on the paleography.; |
| 310488_S1_001 |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| 310488_S2_001 |
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| Reserved Copyright |
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID | 310488 |
| 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 310488 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12266), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal. |
