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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0829

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0829
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 094
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

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
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 Private letter
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
  • documentary | letter | private
Summary of Content Letter to Onnophris the prophet of Ammon, the great god concerning a certain Kaasis
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)
Comment on Religion prophetes of Ammon the great god

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 -?- Ὀ̣ννῶφρι προφήτῃ
2Ἄμμωνος θεοῦ μεγίστου χαίρειν.
3 -?- κύριε, ὁς εηρώτησά 1 l. ὡς ἠρώτησά σε
4 -?- ς υἱοῦ Κάασις παρε-
5 -?- εἰς τὴν ἐμὴν καταλογὴν
6 -?- Ἁθὺρ κζ.

1 l. ὡς ἠρώτησά
convex
1--- to Onnophris, the prophet
2of Ammon the great god, greetings.
3---, o lord, as I have asked you
4--- , of the son of? Kaasis, ---
5--- into my order---
6--- Hathyr 27.
0829-1_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
18805 man Kaasis Κάασις Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
100 CE 125 CE palaeographical dating, identification of Onnophris;

 

Pictures

0829-1_S1_001
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Eleph_829innen_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 308713
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 29836
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;94
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308713 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0829), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.