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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 3032

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Oxford, Bodleian Library
Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 3032
Publication Number O.Bodl. II 2553 descr.
Current Location Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit)
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 find (unspecified)
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) (unknown)
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between -200 and -1
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top and left
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) ink partly are faded.
Script, Primary Greek
Script, additional A Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Language, additional A Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting documentary, ptolemaic cursive, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter or notification regarding wheat
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content Fragment of letter or notification concerning 14 artabas of wheat with a date at the end. Handwriting ptolemaic. Demotic (ERC Elephantine, Moje): Demotic subscription with issuer, date, mentioning of the 14 artabas of wheat.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) Demotic (ERC Elephantine, Moje): Demotic subscription with issuer, date, mentioning of the 14 artabas of wheat.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text new edition. date Ptolemaic.
Multilingualism Bilingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1 -?- ̣
x+2 -?- ̣ ̣ ̣γ̣̣ογει
x+3 -?- τῶι ἐν ηλεφαντι 1l. ἐν ἐλέφαντι? or ἐν Ἐλεφαντί-νη?
x+4 -?- βαλει πυρῶν
x+5 -?- δ̣εκατέσσαρα̣ς (γίνονται) ιδ
x+6 -?- (ἔτους) ι Φαμενὼθ κ̅θ̣̅

1 l. ἐν ἐλέφαντι? or ἐν Ἐλεφαντί-νη?
convex
x+7n-ḏr.t Ḏd-ḥr sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-ꜣs.t n ḥsb.t 10 ı͗bd 3 pr.t sw 29
x+8sw 14

convex
x- - - - - - -
x+1---?
x+2---?
x+3--- in Elephantine?
x+4--- pays of wheat
x+5--- (artabas?) fourteen, = 14
x+6Year 10, Phamenoth 29.
x+7Issued by Teos, son of Psennesis, in the 10th regnal year, [29th] of Phamenoth..
x+814 (artabas) of wheat ..?.. [///]
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (late) 10 Phamenoth 29 -180 BCE -30 BCE Dating by palaeography. emperor incertain.;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307638
last Change 16.08.2022
Trismegistos 73139
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.bodl;2;2553
Author Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Emil Joubert (bibliography)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307638 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 3032), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Emil Joubert (bibliography).