Ostr. Berlin P. 42
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Berlin P. 42 |
| Publication Number |
ined. |
| Current Location |
magazine |
| Comments on Inventory |
2014 available |
| Publication Permission Status |
permission for publication upon enquiry only |
| Publication Status |
unpublished |
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 |
purchase
Certainty: medium |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt |
Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Date of Acquisition for the Intitution |
between 1886 and 1886 |
| Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) |
Erman, Adolf
Certainty: |
Object
| Object Type |
ostracon |
| Color |
pottery, red |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) |
71 mm | 42 mm | 10 mm |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
Broken off on all sides, text also missing at the beginning and at the end of the text as well as at the beginning and end of each line. |
Text Basic Information
| Localization of Text on Object |
one-sided |
| Inks and Pigments |
carbon ink monochrome black |
| Range of Preservation (Text) |
incomplete |
| Script, Primary |
Coptic |
| Language, Primary |
Coptic |
| Comments on Handwriting |
A practised document hand. The letters are regular, slightly sloping, and rather thin. No ligatures are seen in this part of the text, superlineal stroke is used. |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Writing only on the outer (convex) side. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
x+7+y |
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| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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| Line Lenght (in mm) |
33 |
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| Column Height (in mm) |
85 |
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Text Content
| Text Types |
- documentary
- documentary | dept instrument
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| Summary of Content |
Based on the (fragmentary) formulae, this is a typical debt acknowlwdgement, but the contents (who owes, what, how much) are missing. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
Text
Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
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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 |
800108 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Author |
Andrea Hasznos, Daniel Werning |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 800108 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 42), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos, Daniel Werning. |
