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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1070

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1070
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 095
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 top, left and bottom

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 top, left and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+10 +y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragment of a letter
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Letter concerning an advance payment (arrhabon)
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 -?- ̣ ̣ ̣ -?-
x+2 -?- καλοὺς ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
x+3 -?- τὰ ἄλλα καὶ
x+4 -?- ̣ τῷ ἀραβῶν̣ι 1 l. ἀρραβῶνι
x+5 -?- ἐμοῦ ὄντος
x+6 -?- ε κατάβῃς χε-
x+7[ -?- γ]ρ̣άψις 2 l. [γ]ράψεις μοι καὶ
x+8 -?- ω ἵνα τῷ ὀ-
x+9 -?- τι ἴσου γενη-
x+10 -?- πλοῖον
x+10+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

1 l. ἀρραβῶνι
2 l. [γ]ράψεις
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1---
x+2--- beautiful ---
x+3--- the other and
x+4--- the pledge
x+5--- since I am
x+6--- you go down
x+7--- write to me and
x+8--- that to the
x+9--- the same will be
x+10--- ship
x+10+y- - - - - - - - - - -
1070_S1_001
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1070-2_S1_001
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Eleph_1070_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

1070_S1_001
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1070-2_S1_001
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Eleph_1070_S1_001
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Eleph_1070innen_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 308714
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 29837
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;95
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308714 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1070), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.