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Ostr. Berlin P. 14793

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 14793
Publication Number Hintze 1977, Nr.9
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) 60 mm | 90 mm | 10 mm
Range of Preservation complete
Comments on Object The fragmentary central part 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
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) 80
Column Height (in mm) 48
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Ancient Author of Text Toresh, son of Taam
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | dept instrument
Summary of Content Toresh, son of Taam owes Philotheos the bowl (?) 1 myriad. He will pay it back on that day.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text Scribe is David, identical with the scribe of P. 14791, P.14782, P.10834, and the witness of P.14781.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
1ϯ ⲧⲱⲣϣ︦ ⲧⲁⲁⲙ ⲉϥⲭⲣⲉⲱⲥ
2ⲧⲓ ⲛ︦ⲫⲓⲗⲟⲑⲉⲟⲥ ⲡⲓⲛⲁⲕ,1It is debated whether it is a name or an object, identification is not clear, but seems to be more probably an object
3ⲵ ⲁ ⲧⲁϯϥ ⲛⲁⲕ ϩⲛ︦
4ϯⲉⲙⲏⲣⲉ
5ⲇ︦ⲁ︦ⲇ︦ ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫ,ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ

1 It is debated whether it is a name or an object, identification is not clear, but seems to be more probably an object
concave
1Toresh, son of Taam owes
2Philotheos the bowl (?)
31 myriad. I will give it back to you on
4this day.
5Written by David.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
2400 man David ⲇⲁⲇ 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;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 800107
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 87777
Author Andrea Hasznos, Daniel Werning
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 800107 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 14793), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos, Daniel Werning.