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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1039

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1039
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 090
Current Location Elephantine, excavation magazine DAI
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 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]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 200 and 300
Criteria for Dating paleography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left, bottom and right

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, bottom and right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, roman, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter to the strategos
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
  • documentary | letter | letter address
Summary of Content Beginning of a letter to the strategos Aurelios Theon from Annius?
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
1Αὐρηλίῳ Θέωνι̣ -?-
2 -ca.4- ῳ στρατηγῷ -?-
3 -ca.5- π̣α̣ρὰ Ἀννί̣ου -?-
4 -ca.6- ενο̣ -?-
4+y-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
convex
1To Aurelius Theon ---
2--- strategos ---
3--- from Annius ---
4--- greetings.
4+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
1039_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
18780 man Annius (sender) Ἀννίου Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
200 CE 300 CE palaeographical dating, name Aurelius;

 

Pictures

1039_S1_001
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Eleph_1039_S1_001
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Eleph_1039innen_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 308709
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 32233
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;90
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308709 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1039), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.