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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1728

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1728
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 326
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 300 and 499
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave (inside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, byzantine, cursive, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Memorandum / note
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | note
Summary of Content note on the delivery? of wheat to or from Heramon, son of Dios, possibly in the context of the army, since the measure modius is used.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. l. 1: Diou, l. 2 modious, l. 4 si(tou)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
1Ἡράμων Δίου 1ed. Διο( )
2σίτου μοδίο(υ)ς ἕξ 2ed. μόδιο(ι)
3δίμοιρον
4σίτου 3ed. γ̣ί(νονται) μόδιοι ϛ (δίμοιρον).

1 ed. Διο( )
2 ed. μόδιο(ι)
3 ed. γ̣ί(νονται)
concave
1Heramon, son of Dios,
2six modioi of wheat
3and two thirds,
46 mo(dioi) 2/3 of wheat.
Eleph_1728-1_S1_001
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Eleph_1728außen_S2_00
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
25090 man Heramon, son of Dios Ἡράμων Διο() Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
300 CE 499 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

Eleph_1728-1_S1_001
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Eleph_1728außen_S2_00
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Literature

 

DatasetID 308919
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 34329
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;326
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308919 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1728), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.