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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0017

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0017
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 121
Current Location Elephantine, excavation magazine DAI
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status partly published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution (not relevant)
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 100 and 299
Criteria for Dating paleography
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete(?)
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave/convex
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Many signs are faded.
Script, Primary Greek
Script, additional A Late Demotic
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Language, additional A Roman Demotic
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
Comments on Text Layout Convex: XXXX Layout currently unknown, no photo published. Concave: XXXX Layout currently unknown, no photo published.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 + 2
Quantity of Columns 1 + 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title bill for the delivery of wheat
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Har(_) is confirmed by Sab(einos?) of having delivered 2 artaben of wheat for the month Mesore. Two lines of Demotic on the concave inner side, faded and illegible. A connection of both texts is not sure.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text Ian?
Multilingualism Script = Language Bilingual Script <> Language
Ethnicity / Multiculturalism UNCLEAR: Name Ἁρ(_): possibly original Egyptian (Hor-) TO BE CHECKED XXXX.
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 ἀπο? ὑπὲρ Μεσορὴ
2Ἁρ̣? (πυροῦ) (ἀρτάβας) β
3Σαβ̣?
convex
1delivery (?) for Mesore.
2Har(?) 2 artabas of wheat
3Sab(einos?)
DAI_17_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
DAI_17innen_S2_001
Reserved Copyright
0017_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8410 man Hor(_) Ἁρ(_) Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period 100 CE 211 CE Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

DAI_17_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
DAI_17innen_S2_001
Reserved Copyright
0017_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307431
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 29847
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;121
Author Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307431 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0017), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).