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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1663

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1663
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 368
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 500 and 599
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top and left

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave (inside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken at top and left
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of David, son of Menas, deacon
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title end of a document
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | contract
Summary of Content End of a document (contract? debt acknowledgement?) with the subscript of the scribe David, son of Menas, deacon, who is also known to have written coptic documents.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok scribe is known from coptic documents!
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Christianity
Comment on Religion christian names

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
1 -?- ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
2 -?- ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
3 ̣ ̣ μ̣η̣ν̣ὸ̣ς̣ Θὼθ α τῆς ϛ νιδι 1 l. ἰνδι(κτίονος)
4Δαυεὶδ Μηνᾶ ἐλάχιστος
5διάκων εγραφα 2 l. γέγραφα

1 l. ἰνδι(κτίονος)
2 l. γέγραφα
concave
1---
2---
3on the 1st of the month Thoth of the 6th indiction
4David, son of Menas, the most humble
5deacon, I have written.
Eleph_1663-1_S1_001
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Eleph_1663außen_S2_00
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
2405 man David, son of Mena, deacon + scribe ⲇⲁⲩⲉⲓⲇ ⲙⲏⲛⲁ Coptic

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

Eleph_1663-1_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
Eleph_1663außen_S2_00
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 308960
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 38603
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;368
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308960 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1663), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.