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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Berlin P. 12206

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12206
Publication Number	BGU XX 2873
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: 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]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	partage
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1906 and 1906

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, light brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	58 mm \| 72 mm \| 5 mm
Dating	between 100 and 299
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex/concave
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand unknown
Comments on Text Layout	Innenseite: 7 Z.; Außenseite: 3 Z.; andere Seite: Fortsetzung des Textes
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7	3
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	Report on the activities of a woman (prostitute?)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	(other)
Summary of Content	Report on the activities of a woman on two consecutive days, who seems have drunk with men.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 3-4 name: Pat-tiptes; other names incertain. woman wife or prostitute?
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Woman Man
Comment on Gender	woman as wife of prostitute?
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	ζ. ἡ γυνή σου Γ̣ε̣{λ̣}λ̣-
2	λ̣{λ̣}οῦς ἔπινε με-
3	τὰ τοῦ χωλοῦ Πατ-
4	τιπτες. ¹l. Πατσίβτιος; ed. Ποῦ̣τ̣-τι Π̣τές η. ὁμοί-
5	ως ἔπινε μετὰ
6	Τετέω̣ν̣ο̣ς
7	ἀπ’ ² l. ἀφ’ ὥρ̣ας η̣

¹ l. Πατσίβτιος; ed. Ποῦ̣τ̣-τι Π̣τές
² l. ἀφ’

concave

8	ἔσχικαν ¹l. ἐσχήκασι, or ἔσχηκεν τὸ κρα-
9	βάττιόν σου καὶ
10	τὴν ὑδρίαν.

¹ l. ἐσχήκασι, or ἔσχηκεν

convex

1	On the 7th. Your wife (or woman?) Gell
2	ous drank with
3	the lame Pat-
4	siptis. On the 8th: Similarly,
5	she drank with
6	Teteon,
7	from the 8th hour.

concave

8	They got your
9	bed and
10	the jar.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
26955	woman	Gellous	Γελλους?	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				175 CE 250 CE	palaeographical dating;

Literature

Litinas, Nikos, BGU XX 2873: Recording the Activities of a Woman (2013). (no. 2873)

DatasetID	6563
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	06563
Trismegistos	316236
Papyri.info	ddbdp/bgu;20;2873
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 6563 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12206), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer.