Ostr. Berlin P. 14737

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 14737
Publication Number	Hintze 1977, Nr.12
Current Location	magazine \| ostraca depository
Comments on Inventory	2014 available
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

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: medium
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) Certainty: medium
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, red
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	85 mm \| 95 mm \| 8 mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	surface strongly blackened probably due to burn
Comments on Object	Fragment of a pottery plate; black stains on the surface probably due to fire (?)

Localization of Text on Object	two-sided
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	An den Rändern und hauptsächlich am Beginn Zeile 7 schwer lesbar.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	A practised but not very neat documentary hand. I is always longer than the line, A is open on the upper end, Trema is sometimes used.
Comments on Text Layout	8 lines on the inside (concave) and 2 on the outside (convex)
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	2	8
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	71	80
Column Height (in mm)	16	65
Height of Line / Letter

Ancient Author of Text	Praipositos, son of Viktor
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Viktor
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt
Summary of Content	Acknowledgement of receipt of three beds. Praipositos, son of Viktor, acknowledges that he has received 3 beds from the steward (ⲟⲓⲕⲟⲛⲟⲙⲟⲥ) , Halo, and he can sleep on it. He will give back the beds.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	Der Schreiber des Briefes ist ein dritter Person, Viktor, der an der anderen Seite den Text unterschreibt - diese zwei Zeilen ('von NN geschrieben') sind mit einer griechischen Formula angegeben
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man

Transcription

Translation

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concave

1	ⲡⲣⲁⲓⲡⲟⲥⲓⲧ,ⲡⲣⲁⲓⲡⲟⲥⲓⲧⲟⲥ Ⲃⲓⲕⲧⲱⲣ
2	ⲉϥⲥϩⲁⲓ̈ ⲛ︦ⲡⲟⲓⲕⲟⲛⲟ
3	ⲙⲟⲥ ϩⲁⲗ︦ⲱ ϫⲉ ϩⲉⲥ ϣⲟ
4	ⲙⲛⲧ ⲛ︦ⲕⲗⲁⲕ ⲁⲓ̈ϫⲧⲟⲩ
5	ⲛ︦ⲧⲟⲧⲕ ⲉⲧⲣⲁⲛ︦ⲕⲟⲧⲕ
6	ⲉⲣⲟⲩ ⲛⲉⲓⲃⲟⲗ ⲏ ⲉⲓⲁ
7	ⲙ︦ⲡⲣⲁⲓⲡ, ⲛⲧⲁ
8	ⲧⲁⲁⲩ

convex

1	ⳁ ⲇⲓ ⲉⲙⲟⲩ ⲃⲓⲕⲧⲱⲣ
2	ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ

concave

convex

1	By me, Viktor
2	written.

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
2425	man	Halo	ϩⲁⲗ︦ⲱ	Coptic

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
					palaeographical datinghistorical, social setting, other texts and archives from the area, palaeography; names, military titles, business affairs in the Coptic texts from Elephantine;

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DatasetID	800105
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	87978
Author	Andrea Hasznos, Daniel Werning
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 800105 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 14737), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos, Daniel Werning.