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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1860

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1860
Publication Number O.Bodl. II 2473 descr.
Current Location Oxford Ashmolean Museum
Publication Status partly 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 incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top and left

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) left and top broken off
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary
Comments on Text Layout broad margin below the receipt
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 40
Column Height (in mm) 35
Line Distance x+40 x x+35

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragment of a Letter
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content fragment of a letter, content incertain, only the end formula of a letter recognizable
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1-?- ̣-?-
x+2-?-υταις
x+3-?- ̣ ̣ ̣ τὸ αὐτὸ
x+4-?-πισκευα
x+5-?- ̣ρωσθαι σε εὔχομαι
x+6-?- ε ̣ ̣ ωει ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1---
x+2---
x+3--- the same
x+4--- bring?
x+5... I wish you health
x+6---
Oxford_Ashm_Gr.Inscr.1
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Oxford_Ashm_Gr.Inscr.1
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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 200 CE paleographical dating;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Gr.Inscr.1
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Oxford_Ashm_Gr.Inscr.1
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309026
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 73057
Papyri.info ddbdp/o:ashm;2;2473
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309026 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1860), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.