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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 2949

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 2949
Publication Number O.Bodl. II 2221 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 128 and 128
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation surface completely covered by white residue/salt. text unreadable, only some ink traces visible in lower part

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) text not anymore readable because of salt cover on surface. few traces
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines ?
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) ?
Column Height (in mm) ?
Line Distance ?

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content receipt for river guard tax of 128 AD. no transcript; Original not readable anymore: old catalog description of Lobel says: Receipt from D...tmos through Leonates to Packhnoumis son of Orses and Besis for river-guard tax. 128 A.D.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Comments on Text not readable anymore. no transcript
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
Oxford_Ashm_Gr.Inscr.2
Reserved Copyright
Oxford_Ashm_Gr.Inscr.2
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
5 (unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown) German

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
128 CE reported in old catalog, nothing can be read on the ostracon.;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Gr.Inscr.2
Reserved Copyright
Oxford_Ashm_Gr.Inscr.2
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309064
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 72854
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.bodl;2;2221
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309064 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 2949), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.