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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1188

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1188
Publication Number	O.Eleph. DAIK 190
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]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	excavation finds

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 179 and 180
Criteria for Dating	date in text
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, roman cursive
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Fragment of a receipt
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Currently unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	Fragment of a receipt of Valerion Memarm---?, otherwise known as a candidate praktor (O.Wilck. 271)
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok (small correction in l. 4, amount: 2 (dr.?) + 2 chalkoi)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
19980	man	Valerion (Memark/m---), candidate praktor	Οὐαλερίων	Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Commodus	20			179 CE 180 CE	date in text;

 

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Literature

• Aly, Shereen A., Seven Greek Receipts for Various Kinds of Merismos from Elephantine (2019). (no. 6)
• Shelton, John C., Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca, and wooden tablets in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. (no. 41)
• Wagner, Guy, Les Papyrus et les Ostraca grecs d'Éléphantine (P. et O. Eleph. DAIK). (no. 190)

 

DatasetID	308804
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	24264
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;190
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308804 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1188), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.