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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1479

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1479
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 093
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 incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left and right side.

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 right.
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Letter concerning the Nile flood
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Official letter to Claudius Euhemeros concerning the rising flood and the prophets.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. l. 1 and 3 according to parallel in SB 16082 accents?
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)
Comment on Religion prophetes

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 -?- Κλαυδίῳ Εὐημέρῳ 1ed. Ἡρακ]λ̣είδη̣[ι]
2τῶι τιμιωτάτωι̣ χαίρειν.
3κατερά̣κτισεν το̣ -?- 2ed. ] ̣κτει Σεντα[
4 -?- τχενναῦτις κ ̣ -?-
5 -?- ̣ο τοὺς προφήτας̣ -?-
6 -?- σατε. ἐρρῶσθαι.

1 ed. Ἡρακ]λ̣είδη̣[ι]
2 ed. ] ̣κτει Σεντα[
convex
1--- to Claudius Euhemeros ?
2the most honored, greeting.
3The flood has reached the ---
4---tchennautis ---
5--- the prophets ---
6--- Farewell.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8090 not applicable (no further persons mentioned) (no further persons mentỈoned) (none)

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

Eleph_1479_S1_001
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Eleph_1479innen_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 308712
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 26297
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;93
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308712 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1479), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.