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Persons & Deities

Pap. Elephantine, excavation DAIK no. Reg. 17224 W

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Pap. Elephantine, excavation DAIK no. Reg. 17224 W
Publication Number	P.Eleph. DAIK 3
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]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Dating	between -299 and -200
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	borken at top

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	broken at top
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, ptolemaic cursive
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+14?
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	End of a Letter
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	End of a letter concerning a petition and violence.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	translation missing
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

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x	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1	-?- ̣ -?-
x+2	-?- Νικίαι χαίρειν -?-
x+3	-?- γράμμα π̣ -?-
x+4	-?- α τὴν ἔντευ-
x+5	ξιν ἐνεκάλεσά σοι
x+6	-?- τ̣ε καὶ ὕβρεως σ̣οι̣
x+7	ἐπικαλῶ ἐὰν
x+8	ἐπικαλέσω ἢ τὸ
x+9	ἐπίτιμον δ -?-
x+10	ἔρρωσο.
x+11	ἤτους ¹ l. ἔτους δωδε-
x+12	κάτου Ἁθὺρ
x+13	τετράδι καὶ
x+14	εἰκάδι.

¹ l. ἔτους

R

x	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1	---
x+2	--- to Nikias, greeting.
x+3	--- letter? ---
x+4	--- the petition (to the king)
x+5	I have accused you
x+6	of --- and of violence,
x+7	I accuse, if?
x+8	I accused or the
x+9	the fine ---
x+10	Farewell.
x+11	In the twelfth
x+12	year, on Hathyr
x+13	twenty-
x+14	fourth.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
31260	man	Nikias, son of Nikanor	Νικίαν	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
	12	Hathyr	24	-299 BCE -200 BCE	palaeographical dating;

Literature

Wagner, Guy, Les Papyrus et les Ostraca grecs d'Éléphantine (P. et O. Eleph. DAIK). (III)

DatasetID	309264
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	78215
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;III
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309264 (= Pap. Elephantine, excavation DAIK no. Reg. 17224 W), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.