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Ostr. Berlin P. 12171

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12171
Publication Number ined. (to be published in BGU)
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
Publication Status unpublished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) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 1 and 200
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation ink faded

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) ink faded
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Contract of sale
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | contract
Summary of Content Contract of sale of a male animal. Pesaus, son of Pesaus, to ---, greetings. I acknowledge to have bought (peprakenai) a male --- for 48 drachmas.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text no transcript to by published in BGU
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
35690 man Pesaus, son of Pesaus pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
1 CE 200 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 317249
last Change 29.07.2022
Berlpap 10023
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer; BerlPap
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 317249 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12171 ), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; BerlPap.