Ostr. Berlin P. 45
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Berlin P. 45 |
| Publication Number |
ined. |
| Current Location |
magazine | ostraca depository |
| 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unpublished |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, light red |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) |
60 mm | 54 mm | 8 mm |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
On the upper and bottom, and left-hand side broken. Also surface chipping.The end of lines is visible. |
| Comments on Object |
In the middle of the piece there is a whitish painted stripe going across, writing runs over it. |
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 |
Practised document-hand, cursive tendency, some ligatures. C and A are angular, O mostly open on top. Superlinear stroke and trema used. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
7 |
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| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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| Line Lenght (in mm) |
54 |
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| Column Height (in mm) |
60 |
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Text Content
| Text Types |
- documentary
- documentary | dept instrument
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| Summary of Content |
'I ag[ree to ]give them back to you' is most probable in ll.4-5, a typical debt acknowledgement formula |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium) |
| Comments on Text |
'I ag[ree to ]give them back to you' is most probable in ll.4-5, a typical debt acknowledgement formula (ϯⲟ [ⲛ︦ϩⲉⲧⲟⲓⲙⲟⲥ ⲛ︦ⲧⲁ]ⲧⲁⲁⲩ ⲛⲁⲕ) |
| Multilingualism |
Script = Language
Monolingual |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
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1 | | ⲡⲭⲱⲙ ⲃⲓⲱⲥⲓⲥ|
2 | | ⲁⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ|
3 | | ⲧⲱϣ ⲥⲟⲩⲧⲃⲁ|
4 | | ⲉⲣⲟⲓ̈ ϯⲟ︦|
5 | | ⲛ︦ϩⲉⲧⲟⲓⲙⲟⲥ ⲛ︦ⲧⲁⲧⲁⲁⲩ ⲛⲁⲕ|
6 | | ⲉⲧⲕ︦ⲛⲁϣⲓ
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2 | | (...) if God|
3 | | (so will...) ...|
4 | | (...) to me. I ag-|
5 | | (ree to) give tham back to you|
6 | | (...) that you will ...
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Literature
| DatasetID |
800111 |
| 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 800111 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 45), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos, Daniel Werning. |
