Ostr. Berlin P. 12613

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12613
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)	84 mm \| 120 mm \| 7 mm

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Text Layout	11 lines, concave side blank
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	11

Text Content

Modern Title	Notizen (?)
Text Types	(other)
Summary of Content	rests of verse or prose and of an account written by five different hands, mention of pastophoroi (?), possible mention of Aeschylus and of a fragment of his works
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Comment on Religion	go`s name in line 5 (?)

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1
2	ται ἀμφοτ ἀδελ
3	αὐτοκρ
4	νιου παῖ ταῖς δυπ
5	παστοφο θσορμγτ
6	ἐφαίνε
7	μωει σαsign 4 obols sign 2 obols σὺν παντέσσι ε Αἰσχύ
8	σεῦ γὰρ κλέος εὐρ]ὺ κεω
9	ης ἐνὶ τέρπεται καρτεγα
10	σ]ὺν πάντεσσι θυστλ
11	μεγίστης ετ

convex

1	traces
2	... both brothers ...
3	self-accomplishing ¹reading not sure, Schubart suggests in his note a form of αὐτόκρανος; cf. l. 7 and Aesch. TrGF III 295 Radt
4	... boy (?) ... the ...
5	...pastoforoi ... Thsorm ²meaning unclear; Schubart in his note suspects the name of a god.γτ ³meaning unclear
6	seemed ...
7	... 4 obols + 2 obols with all 5 Aeschylus ...
8	because your (?) fame is great ...
9	... rejoice in ...
10	... with all orgies ⁴reading θύστλοις (see Schubart`s note ...
11	... of the greatest ...

¹ reading not sure, Schubart suggests in his note a form of αὐτόκρανος; cf. l. 7 and Aesch. TrGF III 295 Radt
² meaning unclear; Schubart in his note suspects the name of a god.
³ meaning unclear
⁴ reading θύστλοις (see Schubart`s note

Places (read out from edition)

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				-199 BCE -100 BCE	palaeographical dating;

Literature

DatasetID	392
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	00392
Trismegistos	65591
Author	BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Philip Schmitz
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 392 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12613), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Philip Schmitz.