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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1858

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Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1858
Publication Number	O.Bodl. II 2472 descr.
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 200
Criteria for Dating	paleography
Range of Preservation	(undecidable)
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
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand not known
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7
Quantity of Columns	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	66
Column Height (in mm)	55
Line Distance	66+y x 55+y

Text Content

Modern Title	letter
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	letter, no names mentioned.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	new ed.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	unknown

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convex

1	-?- λφῷ
2	-?- ν ἔγραψα
3	-?- ̣ περὶ τριακον-
4	τα? -?- ων καὶ οὐκ ἐπεμ-
5	ψ? -?- οὐδέποτε σε ἠρωτη̣-
6	σ? -?- ν̣ ἐρώτω σε
7	-?- ̣ις ̣ ̣ -?-
7+y	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

convex

1	NN to NN?, the brother,
2	greeting. --- I have written
3	--- concerning thirty
4	--- and did not send
5	--- never asked you
6	--- ask you
7	---
7+y	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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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 300 CE	paleographical dating;

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Literature

Tait, John Gavin & Préaux, Claire, Greek Ostraca in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Vol. II. Ostraca of the Roman and Byzantine Periods. (1955). (no. 2472)

DatasetID	309024
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	73056
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.bodl;2;2472
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309024 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1858), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.