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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2187

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2187
Publication Number	O.Eleph. DAIK 318
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 500 and 599
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at left and bottom

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	concave (inside)
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	documentary, byzantine cursive, hand unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	14
Quantity of Columns	3

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Account with names and amounts of money
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary | account
Summary of Content	Account with names and amounts of money
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	text as in edition. readings uncertain no translation, names not tagging
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Christianity
Comment on Religion	Christogramm

 

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Dates

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

 

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Literature

• Wagner, Guy, Les Papyrus et les Ostraca grecs d'Éléphantine (P. et O. Eleph. DAIK). (no. 318)

 

DatasetID	308914
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	38593
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;318
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308914 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2187), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.