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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Publication Status | unpublished |
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 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. |
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. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 7 | |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 54 | |
Column Height (in mm) | 60 |
Text Types |
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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. |