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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 595

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 595
Publication Number O.Bodl. II 2001
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 100 and 200
Criteria for Dating paleography
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary
Comments on Text Layout margins at top and bottom
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 10
Column Height (in mm) 70
Line Distance 10 x 70

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter of Kopres
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content letter of Kopres to Nilas about money.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Comments on Text ok including remarks and translation of N. Gonis
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Child
Comment on Gender son mentioned in letter
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Κοπρῆς Νιλᾶτι χαίριν. 1 l. χαίρειν
2ἐκομισάμην παρὰ τοῦ ὑειοῦ 2 l. υἱοῦ
3σου Φανοῦφις 3 l. Φανούφιος σήμερον ἡτι 4 l. ἥτις ἐσ-
4τὶν ιϛ δραχμὰς ἑξήκοντα (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ξ.
5ἐτάξου μοι δὲ τὰ ὥλα 5l. ὅλα ψέν-
6ψαι 6 l. πέμ|ψαι. τὸ νῦν φρόντισον τοὺ 7 l. τὸ λυ-
7ποι 8 l. λοι|πὸν ἐπὶ 9 l. ἐπεὶ εἰς Ὄμβους πορευ-
8ώμεθα 10 l. πορευ|όμεθα. Ἁδριανοῦ ιϛ.

1 l. χαίρειν
2 l. υἱοῦ
3 l. Φανούφιος
4 l. ἥτις
5 l. ὅλα
6 l. πέμ|ψαι
7 l. τὸ
8 l. λοι|πὸν
9 l. ἐπεὶ
10 l. πορευ|όμεθα
convex
1Kopres to Nilas, greeting.
2I received from your son
3Phanouphis today which is
4the 16th sixty drachmas, = 60 dr.
5You promised me to send everything.
6Take care now of the
7rest of the balance, because we are on our way to Omboi.
816th of Hadrianos.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12930 man Kopres (sender) Kopres Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrianos 16 100 CE 200 CE paleographical dating, day: dec. 12;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309070
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 72677
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.bodl;2;2001
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309070 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 595), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.