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Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 127

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy estate, private collection John Bankes
Inventory Number Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 127
Publication Number O.Bankes 61
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 100 and 199
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken on all sides

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 on all sides
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragment of a Letter
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content letter mentioning a tax collector and wheat
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1 -?- πράκτωρ -?-
x+2 -?- ἀρ̣τάβην σίτου καθ̣αροῦ 1or καὶ̣ [
x+3 -?- -?- ι 2or [κα]ὶ, or [δ]ι’, or [περ]ὶ, or [ὑπὲ]ρ ἀφέσεως γράψω ̣ -?-
x+4 -?- ̣ τ̣ι θέλις 3l. θέλεις καὶ γράψον ὡ̣ς̣ -?-
x+5 -?- ι 4PN, N. Gonis Λουκίωι Κα -?-
x+5+y-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

1 or καὶ̣ [
2 or [κα]ὶ, or [δ]ι’, or [περ]ὶ, or [ὑπὲ]ρ
3 l. θέλεις
4 PN, N. Gonis
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1--- collector ---
x+2--- artaba of clean(?) wheat ---
x+3--- release (?) I will write ---
x+4--- what you want, and write to me how ---
x+5--- to Lucius Ka---
x+5+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
61_O_Bankes_inv_127_S1
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
27320 man Lucius Ka--- (letter roman) Λουκίωι Κα--- Latin

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
100 CE 199 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

61_O_Bankes_inv_127_S1
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 308555
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 699534
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.bankes;;61
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308555 (= Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 127), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.