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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1576

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1576
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 091
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 100 and 200
Criteria for Dating paleography
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, roman, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Private letter
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content letter of arraignment from Petorzmethis to Thinpetiouthis, with the announcement to take action against her because of some work he has done.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender woman adressee, to be arraigned before court woman indicted

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Πετορζμῆθις Θιν-
2πετιοῦτει χα̣ίρειν.
3σ̣ε ἐνκαλῶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ
4ἔρ̣γ̣ο̣υ̣ οὑ 1l. ὅ ἠργασάμη̣ν̣,
5ὑπὲρ οὐδενὸς ἄλ̣λων.

1 l. ὅ
convex
1Petorzmethis to Thin-
2petiouthis greetings.
3I take action against you for the
4work I have accomplished,
5for nothing else.
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Eleph_1576innen_S2_001
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Eleph_1576-1ir_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
18785 man Petorzmethis, sender Πετορζμῆθις Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
100 CE 200 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

Eleph_1576_S1_001
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Eleph_1576innen_S2_001
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Eleph_1576-1ir_S1_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 308710
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 29835
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;91
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308710 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1576), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.