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Ostr. Berlin P. 12605

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Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12605
Publication Number	Lit
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)	68 mm \| 128 mm \| 13 mm
Dating	between -305 and 1000
Criteria for Dating	palaeography

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Text Layout	10 lines, other side uninscribed
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	10

Text Content

Modern Title	Glossary (school text)
Text Types	literary \| poetry scientific \| writing exercise
Summary of Content	glossary (school exercise) with quotations of Homer, Odyssey 11, 311 and 21, 390–391; Antimachus vi p. 250 Powell; Hipponax Fr. 49 West.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: low)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language

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Translation

Pictures

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1
2	φανηε
3	πτερὰ ἠιωροῦντο
4	ἐνεσείατο δέ σφιν δε α
5	σοῦσα· σχοινία. Ὁμήρου· κεῖτο δ' ὑπ' αἰθούσηι σοῦσον
6	νεὸς ἀμφιελίσσης βύβλινον, ὧι τ' ἐπέδησε θύρας, ἐς δ' ἤλυθεν αὐτός, Ἀντιμάχου· ἐν δ' ἱστὸν θῆκεν, λαίφεσι δὲ
8	λινέοις σοῦσα ἐτίθει παντοῖα θεά, πόδας ἠδε κάλωας,
9	ἐν δ' ὑπέρας στρεπτὰς ὅπλά τε πάντα νεός. ὧρος·
10	ἐνιαυτός. ἐννέωροι γὰρ τοίγε, Ἱππονάκτος· πονηρός
11	οι πάντας Ἀσωποδώρου παῖδα

7	convex
1	...
2	...
3	... they raised (the wings?) ...
4	... but he appeared (?) to them ...
5	σοῦσα: ropes. In Homer ¹Hom. Od. 21, 390-391: 'under the porch there was a papyrus rope
6	of a curved ship, with which he tied the doors, then
7	he entered'; in Antimachus²fr. vi Powell p. 250: 'she set the mast, for the flax sails
8	then put all sorts of rope the goddess, sheets and reefing ropes,
9	the twisted braces and all the ship's equipment'. ὧρος:
10	year. ³Hom. Od. 11, 311'in fact these nine years'; in Hipponax ⁴fr. 49 West: 'bad
11	... all the son of Asopodorus ... '

¹ Hom. Od. 21, 390-391
² fr. vi Powell p. 250
³ Hom. Od. 11, 311
⁴ fr. 49 West

Places (read out from edition)

Dates

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

Literature

von Willamowitz-Möllendorff, Ulrich, Dichterfragmente aus der Papyrussammlung der Kgl. Museen (1918). (Nr. 3)

DatasetID	3587
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	03587
Trismegistos	61222
Author	BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer, Philip Schmitz
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 3587 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12605), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer, Philip Schmitz.