Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 2950

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: medium
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Localization of Text on Object	(unknown/uncertain)
Inks and Pigments	unknown
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	original missing: transcript shows lacunae
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	unknown, piece missing
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	14
Quantity of Columns	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	?
Column Height (in mm)	?
Line Distance	?

Modern Title	Trag. Adesp. 732 Kannicht-Snell
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary \| list
Summary of Content	A list of pictures with events of the Trajan and Theban cycle, which the scribe says he saw himself; perhaps a schooltext.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Comments on Text	lit, original missing
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	ἔδαφος Κυβήβης / Ἕκτορα παῖδα
2	Ἀσ̣τυαν ¹read: Ἕκτορος παῖδα Ἀσ̣τυάν ακτα / Τρωίλον ὠλλύμενον ²read: ὀλλύμενον
3	/ μορφὴν τὴν ³read: τῆς Ἑκάβης στυγοῦσαν
4	ἐν θαλάμοις κλιθεῖσαν / νύκτα
5	̣ ̣ρον αἱμάτωπός ν, σάτυρον ὑπὸ πίτυν,
6	Ἄ̣ττειν ἡμιγύνην λυθένταν ⁴read: Ἄ̣ττιν ἡμιγύνον λυθέντα
7	Βρομίου Θῆβαι / εἶδον ἀπολλύμενον
8	γάμον ἐνγα α̣ι μον Ἰοκάστης /
9	Οἰδίποδος τὴν σφίνγαν ° Πενθέα κόπτ̣ουσαν Ἀγ-
10	αύην ° εὑρομένην ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
11	̣ ̣ν̣υκτὸς φλεγομένην̣
12	Πέργαμον ° ἁλωμένην̣ δόλ-
13	ωι Δαναῶν Ἴλιον
14	̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣

¹ read: Ἕκτορος παῖδα Ἀσ̣τυάν ακτα
² read: ὀλλύμενον
³ read: τῆς
⁴ read: Ἄ̣ττιν ἡμιγύνον λυθέντα

convex

1	the land of Kybele: ¹ add "I saw" like in l. 7 Hector`s child
2	Astyanax ; Troilos dying;
3	the figure of Hecabe, full of hate
4	reclining on a bed; the night
5	--- blood-stained; a satyr under a pine;
6	Attis the half-woman released.
7	Thebes of Bromios: I saw the
8	bloody marriage of Iokaste, destined to a miserable end ;
9	the sphinx of Oidipous; Agaue beating
10	Pentheus ; found ²feminine participle; Préaux thinks about Antigone---
11	---; the citadel of Troy at night
12	burning; Troy captured by the
13	ruse of the Greeks;
14	---

¹ add "I saw" like in l. 7
² feminine participle; Préaux thinks about Antigone

Places (read out from edition)

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				100 CE 200 CE	paleographical dating;

DatasetID	309065
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	63687
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.bodl;2;2171
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer, Philip Schmitz
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309065 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 2950), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Philip Schmitz.