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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1739

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1739
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 338
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]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution (not relevant)
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty:

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between -299 and -100
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken on all sides

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 on all sides
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, Ptolemaic, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title document, letter?
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content document of incertain content, perhaps a letter about the delivery of wine?
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok (small changes)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1 -?- ίωι -?-
x+2 -?- δήμωι ̣ -?-
x+3 -?- ιναίδι ̣ -?- 1ed. (τετρώβολον)
x+4 -?- ἀπόστειλον τ -?-
x+5 -?- κεραμια ν̣ο̣ ̣ -?-
x+6καὶ τὸ ὀξηρόν -?-
x+7κεραμι ̣ -?- 2ed. κιρανι ̣
x+7+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - -

1 ed. (τετρώβολον)
2 ed. κιρανι ̣
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1--- to -ios? ---
x+2--- to -demos ---
x+3--- to -inais ---
x+4--- send ---
x+5--- keramia ---
x+6and the (oxeros?) ---
x+7keramia ---
x+7+y- - - - - - - - - - - -
1739_S1_001
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Eleph_1739_S1_001
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Eleph_1739innen_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
3560 (unknown) (Unknown [lost]) (Unknown [lost]) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
-299 BCE -100 BCE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

1739_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
Eleph_1739_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
Eleph_1739innen_S2_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 308930
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 74482
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;338
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308930 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1739), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.