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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1883 +1909

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1883 +1909
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 339
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 -199 and -1
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation to be joined out of two fragments

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) joined out of two fragments
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, Ptolemaic, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for money
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Private receipt for money between father and son.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. joined to 1909, full text newly edited
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ἔχω παρὰ τοῦ
2πατρὸς
3χα(λκοῦ) (τάλαντον) α (δραχμὰς) Ἐ.
convex
1I have received from the
2father
3copper currency 1 talent 5000 (drachmas).
Eleph_1883+1909-1_S1_0
Reserved Copyright
1883+1909innen_S2_001
Reserved Copyright
Eleph_1883+1909_S1_001
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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
-199 BCE -1 BCE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

Eleph_1883+1909-1_S1_0
Reserved Copyright
1883+1909innen_S2_001
Reserved Copyright
Eleph_1883+1909_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 308931
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 74483
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;339
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308931 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1883 +1909), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.