Ostr. Berlin P. 14793

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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

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 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.

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

Ancient Author of Text	Toresh, son of Taam
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	David
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

Transcription

Translation

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1	ϯ ⲧⲱⲣϣ︦ ⲧⲁⲁⲙ ⲉϥⲭⲣⲉⲱⲥ
2	ⲧⲓ 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
3	ⲵ ⲁ ⲧⲁϯϥ ⲛⲁⲕ ϩⲛ︦
4	ϯⲉⲙⲏⲣⲉ
5	ⲇ︦ⲁ︦ⲇ︦ 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

1	Toresh, son of Taam owes
2	Philotheos the bowl (?)
3	1 myriad. I will give it back to you on
4	this day.
5	Written by David.

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