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Ostr. Berlin P. 14791

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 14791
Publication Number	Hintze 1977, Nr.8
Current Location	magazine \| ostraca depository
Comments on Inventory	2014 available
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: medium
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
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, red
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	53 mm \| 105 mm \| 8 mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	A part of the bottom is broken off, and with it some letters of the text
Comments on Object	Rim of a plate of red pottery.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	The ink is somewhat faded and rubbed off, but still readable.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	A cursive documentary hand, with ligatures.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines		5
Quantity of Columns		1
Line Lenght (in mm)		91
Column Height (in mm)		32
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Ancient Author of Text	Achaias
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	David
Text Types	documentary documentary \| dept instrument
Summary of Content	Achaias and his companion (?) owe Philotheos, son of Johannes, 400 she which they will repay him.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	Scribe is David, identical with the scribe of P. 14793, P.10834, P.14782, and the witness of P.14781.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Text

Transcription

Translation

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concave

1	ϯ ⲁⲭⲁⲓⲁⲥ ϛⲕⲁⲓ ⲉⲧⲉⲣ,ⲉⲧⲁⲓⲣⲟⲥ ⲁⲩⲧⲟⲩ ⲉⲩⲭⲣⲉⲱⲥ
2	ⲧⲓ ⲛ︦ⲫⲓⲗⲟⲑⲉⲟⲥ ⲓ̈ⲱⲁⲛⲟⲩ
3	ⲙⲡϣⲉ ⲩ ⲧⲁϯⲟⲩ ⲛⲁⲕ ϩⲛ︦
4	ϯⲉⲙⲏⲣⲉ ⲇ︦ⲁ︦ⲇ︦
5	ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ

concave

1	Achaias and his companion owe
2	Philotheos, son of Johannes,
3	400 she. I will give it back to you on
4	this day. David
5	has written (this).

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
2380	man	Achaias	ⲁⲭⲁⲓⲁⲥ	Coptic

Dates

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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Literature

DatasetID	800106
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	87776
Author	Andrea Hasznos, Daniel Werning
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 800106 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 14791), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos, Daniel Werning.