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Ostr. Berlin P. 12000

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12000
Publication Number	lit. math ined.
Current Location	magazine | papyrus depository
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty:
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director) Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	partage
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1906 and 1906

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, yellow brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness)	99 mm | 62 mm | 11 mm
Dating	between -299 and -200
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	(undecidable)
State of Preservation	surface damaged

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	? surface damaged
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Existing Pictorial Elements	1 geometric figure
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	12
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Geometric problem
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	scientific scientific | math scientific | math | geometry
Summary of Content	geometric problem with figure.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language

 

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				-299 BCE -200 BCE	palaeographical dating;

 

Literature

• Dorandi, T., La tradizione papiracea degli „Elementi“ di Euclide (1992). (311)
• Fowler, D., The Mathematics of Plato’s Academy. A New Reconstruction (1999). (209-211)
• Horak, u., Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere I (1992). (253)
• Müller, W. & Mau, J., Mathematische Ostraka aus der Berliner Sammlung (1960). (1-10)

 

DatasetID	317364
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	16498
Trismegistos	65672
Author	BerlPap-Team, Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 317364 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12000), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team, Ruth Duttenhöfer .