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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0107

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0107
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 225
Current Location Elephantine, excavation magazine DAI
Publication Status partly 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 500 and 599
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken on all sides

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave (inside)
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken on all sides
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, byzantine cursive, notary, proficient, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+3+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 Fragment of a letter
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1 -?- ̣ ̣ ̣ -?-
x+2 -?- Μερκούριος ̣ ̣ -?-
x+3 -?- ̣ν̣ειηβ χαίρε̣ιν -?-
x+3+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
concave
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1---
x+2--- Mercurius ---
x+3--- ? greeting. ---
x+3+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
0107_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_107innen_S2_001
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_107_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
31395 man Mercurius Μερκούριος Latin

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
500 CE 599 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

0107_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_107innen_S2_001
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_107_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 308836
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 38575
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;225
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308836 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0107), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).