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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1842

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1842
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 357
Current Location magazine Assuan
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 100 and 299
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left and bottom

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 at left and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Letter
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Private letter to the brother
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 -?- τῷ ἀδελ-
2[φῷ -ca.?- ] χαίρειν.
3 -?- ν ἔλεγεν
4 -?- ̣ ̣ ̣ ἑαυτοῦ
5 -?- εἴκοσι . ἐὰν δέ
6 -?- ̣ λέγων πα-
7 -?- ἔκκοψα τοὺς
8 -?- ̣ ̣ος ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣γη
9 -?- ἀλλ ̣ ̣ -?-
y-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
convex
1--- to the brother
2---, greeting.
3--- I said
4--- of himself
5--- twenty. If
6--- saying ---
7-- I have cut the
8--- ? ---
9--- other? ---
y-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
1842_S1_001
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Eleph_1842-2_S1_001
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Eleph_1842innen_S2_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
100 CE 299 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

1842_S1_001
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Eleph_1842-2_S1_001
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Eleph_1842innen_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 308949
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 29891
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;357
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308949 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1842), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.