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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 921

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 921
Publication Number O.Bodl. II 2471
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 incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left

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) left side broken off
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary
Comments on Text Layout margin at top
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 11
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 65
Column Height (in mm) 65
Line Distance x+65 x 65

 

Text Content

Modern Title private letter
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content letter to a woman
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Woman Man
Comment on Gender woman adressee
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ Θινπαχνούμει τῇ ἀδέλφῃ
2χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν πάντων
3εὔχομαί̣ σαι 1l. σε ὑγιαίνιν 2 l. ὑγιαίνειν τὸ κλου-
4 ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ε̣νεστιν β ̣ ̣ ̣κ̣ω̣ν̣ κατ̣α
5 ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣γ̣νωσον αὐτὸν καὶ πλη-
6 ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ων καὶ δὲς 3l. δὸς αὐτῷ καλὰ̣
7 ̣ ̣ ̣ν τε καὶ κόψεν 4 l. κόψον ἡμιαρ-
8 ̣ ̣ αὐτῷ καὶ τίμησον αὐτὸν
9 ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣το ἄλλο ἅπαξ ειπα
10 ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ μελησάτω σοι
11- 9 - ἀκούης.

1 l. σε
2 l. ὑγιαίνειν
3 l. δὸς
4 l. κόψον
convex
1NN to Thinpachnoumis, the sister,
2greeting. First of all,
3I pray for you to be in good health ---
4--- is ---
5--- recognize him and ---
6--- and give him nice
7--- and hit? ---? an half artaba?
8--- to him and estimate him/it
9--- the other I have said once
10--- should take care about you
11--- (til?) you hear.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12950 woman Thinpachnoumis (adressee) Thinpachnumis Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309071
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 73055
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.bodl;2;2471
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309071 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 921), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.