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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 2784

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 2784
Publication Number O.Bodl. II 2476 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: medium
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 of Object 4th century
Dating between 300 and 499
Criteria for Dating paleography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation right and top broken off

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, byzantine
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 11
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 60
Column Height (in mm) 65
Line Distance 60+y x x+65

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter?
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content incertain; perhaps letter
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Comments on Text no transcript
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

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
300 CE 499 CE paleographical dating;

 

Pictures

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

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309497
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 73060
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.bodl;2;2476
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309497 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 2784), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.