Home Project Search Objects Places Persons & Deities  
 

Search in Objects


(submit with enter)

 

Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2190 + 2843

TEI-XML-File: https://p612399.webspaceconfig.de/xml/elephantine_erc_db_308910.tei.xml

Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2190 + 2843
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 314 lit ined.
Current Location magazine Assuan
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
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
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at 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 left and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting Careful hand, perhaps by a not experienced writer. Poor spelling, which at one point (l. 8) produces a metrically incorrect text.The text is written like prose without consistent indication of verses. The scribe uses / to structure the text, once at the end of a verse in l. 5. This and the subject suggest a school-context.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Ancient Title Mythiambos
Modern Title Babrius Fable 36
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • literary
  • literary | poetry
Summary of Content Fable of the oak and the reed. The text has two new possible readings (ll. 2.5), which seem to derive from a tradition different from the medieval manuscripts.
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1δρῦν αὐτόριζον ἄνεμος ἐξ ὄρους ἂρας ἔδοκεν ποταμῶ /
2τὴν δ' ἔσυρε κυμαίνων, πελώριον βλάστημα 1medieval manuscripts read φύτευματῶν /
3πρὶν ἀνθρώπων. πολὺς δὲ κάλαμος ἐκατέρωθεν ἱστήκει2read: εἱστήκει
4ἔλαφρον ὄχθης ποταμίης ὕδωρ πίνων. θάμβος δὲ τὴν δρῦν εἶχε
5πῶς ὁ μὲν ειης / 3unclear, medieval manuscripts read λίην νωθρός 4medieval manuscripts read λεπτόςτ' ἐὼν καὶ βλη
6χρὸς οὐκ ἐπεπτώκει, αὐ τὴ τὲ τόσι5read: τόσση πηγας 6unclear, the α could have been corrected to ο; either mistake writing the word πηγὰς "hoarfrost" or, more likely, wrong spelling for φηγὸς, which is transmitted by the medieval manuscripts ἐξηρειζώθη 7read: ἐξεριζώθη;
7σοφῶς δὲ κάλαμος εἶπε· μηδὲν ἐκπληθους 8ο probably corrected from μ; probably mistake for ἐκπλήσσου transmitted by the medieval manuscripts / σὺ μὲν
8μαχομένη ταῖς πνοαῖς ἐνικήθης. ἡμεῖς δέ καμτόμεθα 9read: καμτόμε σθα, which is required by the metre and transmitted in the medieval manuscripts

1 medieval manuscripts read φύτευμα
2 read: εἱστήκει
3 unclear, medieval manuscripts read λίην
4 medieval manuscripts read λεπτός
5 read: τόσση
6 unclear, the α could have been corrected to ο; either mistake writing the word πηγὰς "hoarfrost" or, more likely, wrong spelling for φηγὸς, which is transmitted by the medieval manuscripts
7 read: ἐξεριζώθη
8 ο probably corrected from μ; probably mistake for ἐκπλήσσου transmitted by the medieval manuscripts
9 read: καμτόμε σθα, which is required by the metre and transmitted in the medieval manuscripts
convex
1The wind uplifted with its very roots an oak upon the mountainside and gave it to the river
2and the river swept it on amid its billows, that giant offshoot of men of
3former times. But many a reed stood on either side,
4drinking the quiet water by the river`s bank. Great wonder came upon the oak:
5how could it be that one so 1reading λίην sluggish and so weak
6 had not fallen, while he himself so great an oak 2reading φηγὸς had been uprooted?
7Wisely then the reed made answer: Marvel not 3reading ἐκπλήσσου . You
8fought the winds and therefore lost the battle; but we bend ... (after Perry 1965)

1 reading λίην
2 reading φηγὸς
3 reading ἐκπλήσσου
2190+2843_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
Eleph_2190+2843_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
Elepüh_2190+2843innen
Reserved Copyright
Eleph_2190ir+-2_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
     
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
300 CE 399 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

2190+2843_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
Eleph_2190+2843_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
Elepüh_2190+2843innen
Reserved Copyright
Eleph_2190ir+-2_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 308910
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 34322
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;314
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer, Philip Schmitz
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308910 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2190 + 2843), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Philip Schmitz.