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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1484 +1485

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1484 +1485
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 100
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 400
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right 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 right and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 11+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragment of a letter
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
  • documentary | letter | private
Summary of Content Private letter mentioning a duplicarius (Roman soldier receiving double pay)
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok text as in editon
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣οσηνα ̣ -?-
2 ̣υφων ἐκέλευσας ̣ -?-
3διακοσίων ε ̣ ̣ ̣ -?-
4καὶ Κλαυδιανὸς -?-
5φεισι ὑπὸ τοῦ -?-
6υ̣ἱ̣οὺς Ξένωνος -?-
7τῷ μὴ ἔχοντι -?-
8παρὰ σι̣ -?-
9δουπλικ̣αρι- -?-
10χειρω̣ -?-
11σὺν -?-
y-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
convex
1--- ? ---
2--- you have ordered ---
3two hundred ---
4and Claudianus ---
5--- by the ---
6the sons of Xenon ---
7--- not having ---
8from ---
9duplicarius ---
10hand?---
11with ---
y- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
DAIK1484+1485_S1_001
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1484-1485_S1_001
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1484innen_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
18855 man Claudianus Κλαυδιανὸς Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
200 CE 400 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

DAIK1484+1485_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
1484-1485_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
1484innen_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 308719
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 32235
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;100
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308719 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1484 +1485), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.