“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
Ost. Ber. P. 11412
TAD D.11.15; Sachau Ost. 83, 3 / taf. 70, 3
Metadata
- Collection
- Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin, Germany | ÄMP (Public)
- Keyword
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- Vessel Label
- Language
- Phoenician / Punic
- Script
- Phoenician
- Find Type
- Excavation
- Acquired
- Otto Rubensohn and Fredriech Zucker [1906–1907]
- Material
- clay | vessel (or pot fragment/sherd)
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-06-28
Lidzbarski, Mark. Phönizische und aramäische Krugaufschriften aus Elephantine. Abhandlungen der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse 1. Berlin: Verl. der Königl. Akad. der Wiss., 1912.
Porten, Bezalel, and Ada Yardeni. Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt. 4 vols. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1986.
Sachau, Eduard. Aramäische Papyrus und Ostraka aus einer jüdischen Militär-Kolonie zu Elephantine. 2 vols. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1911. https://archive.org/details/aramischepapyr02sachuoft/page/n17/mode/2up.
“Rubensohn-Bibliothek | Die ägyptische und orientalische „Rubensohn-Bibliothek“, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin,” July 4, 2020. https://elephantine.smb.museum/.
Textual Notes
The inscription has been edited as Aramaic, likely due to the crown on the B and N, but these forms are found on Phoenician inscriptions from Elephantine/Syene as well as from the greater mediterranean (e.g. Teixidor, MMJ 11, no. 23 middle hand).
Lidzbarski identified this as a "sigla," and TAD followed asking "Potter's mark ?". The problem is that the word would be Phoenician if it means "son" but the script, particularly the ב is written in Aramaic. Translated here as a short form of the name בניה, though admittedely one might expect a final י.
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James Moore Last updated 07 April, 2026 by James D. Moore
James Moore Last updated 07 April, 2026 by James D. Moore
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Moore, James D.. 'Ost. Ber. P. 11412.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11319. Accessed: 30 Jun, 2026.