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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1862

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1862
Publication Number	O.Bodl. II 2522 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 of Object	Byzantine (Coptic) Period
Dating	between 395 and 640
Criteria for Dating	paleography
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken on all four sides

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)	incomplete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	scribbled, byzantine documentary?
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	2
Quantity of Columns	2?
Line Lenght (in mm)	64
Column Height (in mm)	20
Line Distance	64+y x x+20

 

Text Content

Modern Title	not identified
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary
Summary of Content	unidentified. scribbles, no writing
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: low)
Comments on Text	unidentified
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

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
Byzantine (Coptic) Period				395 CE 640 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. 2522)

 

DatasetID	309028
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	73110
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.bodl;2;2522
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309028 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1862), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.