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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0914

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0914
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 126
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 100
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right

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
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting school hand, big and square, beginner
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Alphabet
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific
  • scientific | writing exercise
Summary of Content writing exercise with alphabet
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Comments on Text corr. the ostracon is broken at the left side, not at the right side. Therefore, the whole arrangement of the alphabet letters is differently layed out.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ̣ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ
2Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ
3 Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω
0914_S1_001
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Eleph_914_S1_001
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Eleph_914innen_S2_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 BCE 100 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

0914_S1_001
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Eleph_914_S1_001
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Eleph_914innen_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 308743
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 74466
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;126
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308743 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0914), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.