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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 |
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 Type | ostracon |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | broken at left and bottom |
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 |
Ancient Title | Mythiambos |
Modern Title | Babrius Fable 36 |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 |
1 reading λίην 2 reading φηγὸς 3 reading ἐκπλήσσου |
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Places (read out from edition) |
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) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
300 CE 399 CE | palaeographical dating; |
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. |