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Ostr. Berlin P. 12581

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12581
Publication Number ined.
Current Location magazine
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Publication Status unpublished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]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, red brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 130 mm | 113 mm | 10 mm
Dating between 110 and 299
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete

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) no transcript to by published in BGU
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, roman cursive, hand of Sarapion
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title fragment of a contract
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | contract
Summary of Content Fragment of a contract, delivery in three days
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text no transcript to by published in BGU
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
100 CE 299 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316893
last Change 29.07.2022
Berlpap 10187
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 316893 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12581), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.