Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1857
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1857 |
| Publication Number |
O.Bodl. II 1995 |
| Current Location |
Oxford Ashmolean Museum |
| 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] |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt |
Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Object
| Object Type |
ostracon |
| Dating |
between 100 and 300 |
| Criteria for Dating |
paleography |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
right and bottom part broken off |
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) |
right and bottom broken off, text faded |
| Script, Primary |
Greek |
| Language, Primary |
Greek, Ancient |
| Comments on Handwriting |
documentary, hand unknown |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
5 |
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| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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| Line Lenght (in mm) |
30 |
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| Column Height (in mm) |
45 |
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| Line Distance |
30+y x 45+y |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
letter |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content |
letter mentioning myrobalanon |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium) |
| Comments on Text |
ok (name in l. 1 incertain) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
| Religion |
unknown |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | Φ ̣κ̣ ̣ ̣ψ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ χ(αίρειν). |
2 | | καλῶς ποιήσεις γρά-
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3 | | ψας̣ Πετοσίρει περὶ
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4 | | μυροβαλάν̣ων -?-
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5 | | ἀλλα κ̣ -?-
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5+y | | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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1 | | Ph--- to --- greeting.|
2 | | Please, write |
3 | | to Petosiris about |
4 | | the behen-nuts --- |
5 | | --- |
5+y | | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 28645 |
man |
Petosiris (Bodl. 1995) |
Πετοσίρει |
pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
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100 CE 300 CE |
paleographical dating; |
Pictures
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Literature
| DatasetID |
309023 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
72671 |
| Papyri.info |
ddbdp/o.bodl;2;1995 |
| Author |
Ruth Duttenhöfer |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 309023 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1857), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer. |
