Science in Ancient Egypt

Ostracon Berlin P 9898

Metadata

knowledge domains
Medicine
Present location
Europe » Germany » (Cities A-G) » Berlin » Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung

Inventory number: P 9898

Find spot
Asyut to First Cataract » Thebes » West Bank
Date
from: Era and Dynasty Dates » Pharaonic Period » New Kingdom » 19th Dynasty to: Era and Dynasty Dates » Pharaonic Period » New Kingdom » 20th Dynasty
Text type
unknown/undefined
Material
Man made material » Pottery
Object type
Artefact » Writing surfaces » Ostracon
Script
Hieratic
Language
Egyptian-Coptic » Egyptian » Middle Egyptian, Egyptian-Coptic » Egyptian » Late Egyptian
Editions

- Fischer-Elfert 2015: H.-W. Fischer-Elfert, Magika Hieratika in Berlin, Hannover, Heidelberg und München, Ägyptische und Orientalische Handschriften des Ägyptischen Museums und Papyrussammlung Berlin 2 (Berlin/München/Boston 2015), 319–322.

- Posener 1972: G. Posener, Catalogue des ostraca hiératiques littéraires de Deir el-Médineh. II,3. Nos 1109–1266, Documents de Fouilles de l’Institut Franҫais d’Archéologie Orientale du Caire, 18, Fasc. 3 (Le Caire 1972), 29 (to oDeM 1215), note 1 (hieroglyphic transcription of line 1).

- Westendorf 1999: W. Westendorf, Handbuch der altägyptischen Medizin, Handbuch der Orientalistik I 36,1 (Leiden/Boston/Köln 1999), 79, 295 (quoted after Posener 1972).

A complete bibliography can be found here.

Author
Dr. Ines Köhler

Translation and Commentary

For complete metadata, translation, and commentary, see German version.