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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1944

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1944
Publication Number	O.Bodl. II 2366 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 300 and 600
Criteria for Dating	paleography
Range of Preservation	incomplete
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
State of Preservation (Text)	line endings
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3
Quantity of Columns	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	7
Column Height (in mm)	35
Line Distance	x+7 x 35+y

 

Text Content

Modern Title	account for woven reed mats (psiatia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary | account
Summary of Content	account for woven reed mats (psiathia)
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Comments on Text	ok, handwriting rather byzantine than roman.
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
				300 CE 600 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. 2366)

 

DatasetID	309040
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	72999
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.bodl;2;2366
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309040 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1944), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.