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Ostr. Berlin P. 12013

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12013
Publication Number	BGU VI 1467
Current Location	magazine
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:
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	partage
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1906 and 1906

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, medium brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	92 mm \| 103 mm \| 5 mm
Dating	between -99 and -1
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, cursive, hand unknown
Comments on Text Layout	4 lines, other side uninscribed
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	letter concerning a visit
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	Letter of Serapion and Orsenouphis to Thiapechnoubis, to come for one night to the guard/fortress?
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 4: phroro
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	women addressee in letter, protitute?
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	Σεραπίων καὶ Ὀρσενοῦφις
2	Θιαπεχνούβι χαίρειν . καλῶς
3	ποήσις ¹l. ποιήσεις ἀπελεύσῃ νύκταν ² l. νύκτα
4	μίαν ἀπὸ α ³ corr. ex ε ἕως β τοῦ Παοινι ⁴l. Παῦνι φρωρω ⁵ed. φρουρω, l. φρουρῷ or φρουρῶ.

¹ l. ποιήσεις
² l. νύκτα
³ corr. ex ε
⁴ l. Παῦνι
⁵ ed. φρουρω, l. φρουρῷ or φρουρῶ

convex

1	Serapion and Orsenouphis
2	to Thiapachnoubis greetings. Please,
3	come for one
4	night from the 1st to 2nd of Payni to the guard(s).

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
26000	man	Orsenouphis (letter bgu)	Ὀρσενοῦφις	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
		Payni	01	-99 BCE -1 BCE	palaeographical dating, day: May 26;

Literature

Schubart, Wilhelm & Kühn, Ernst, BGU VI: Papyri und Ostraka der Ptolemäerzeit (1922). (no. 1467)

DatasetID	3400
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	03400
Trismegistos	7362
Papyri.info	ddbdp/bgu;6;1467
Author	BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 3400 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12013), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer.