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Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 22

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy estate, private collection John Bankes
Inventory Number Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 22
Publication Number O.Bankes 59
Current Location Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy
Publication Status 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:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Bankes, William John
Certainty:
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 old stock
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1815 and 1818
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty:

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 151 and 152
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left and bottom

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken at left and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, nice and careful script, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Letter concerning a linen workshop
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Letter to Patsibtis, son of Petorzmethis, on business matters, concerning a linen workshop and involving Valerios, son of Sokrates, a soldier or strategos?
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1[ -?- Πα̣τίβτι 1 l. [Π]ατσίβτει Πετορζμήθου χαίρειν.
2 -?- Ψαμμ?η̣τίχου ἐργαστηρίου λινουπ? 2l. λινοπ(ωλῶν), or λινούφ(ων), or λινουφ(ικοῦ)
3 -?- α̣ 3l. [κατὰ τὰ κελευσθέντ]α̣? Οὐαλερίου Σωκράτους στρατ? 4l. στρατιώτου or στρα(τηγοῦ)?
4 -?- ιε (ἔτους) Ἀντωνείνου 5 l. Ἀντωνίνου
5Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου. ἔγραψεν ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ μὴ
6εἰδότος γράμματα -?- Καίσαρος.

1 l. [Π]ατσίβτει
2 l. λινοπ(ωλῶν), or λινούφ(ων), or λινουφ(ικοῦ)
3 l. [κατὰ τὰ κελευσθέντ]α̣?
4 l. στρατιώτου or στρα(τηγοῦ)?
5 l. Ἀντωνίνου
convex
1--- to Patsibtis, son of Petorzmethis, greeting.
2--- of the workshop of linen sellers? of Psammetichos?
3--- (according to the orders ?) of Valerios Sokrates, the (soldier/strategos?),
4--- of year 15 of Antoninus
5Caesar the lord. --- has written for him, since he does not
6know how to write --- of Caesar.
59_O_Bankes_inv_22_S1_
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4791 man Patsibtis, son of Petorzmethis and Senpelaia, grandson of Psansnos Πατσιβτις Πετορζμήθου Σενπελαίας, τοῦ Ψανσνῶτ(ος) (WO 125) Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Antoninus Pius 15 151 CE 152 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

59_O_Bankes_inv_22_S1_
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 308506
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 699532
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.bankes;;59
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308506 (= Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 22), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.