Ostr. Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library 3145

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Inventory Number	Ostr. Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library 3145
Publication Number	SB XIV 11922
Current Location	Cambridge, Harvard, Houghton Library
Publication Status	published

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

Object Type	ostracon
Dating of Object	ca. 250
Dating	between 242 and 299
Criteria for Dating	date according to content: dekaprotoi only after 242 AD
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at top, right and bottom

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	broken at top, right and bottom
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+8+y
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Letter
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	Letter, ca. 0250. In Greek. 9.5 x 7.5 cm. A fragmentary letter, in which the names of neither the sender nor the recipient can be recovered. It concerns a transaction involving dates.
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok (text as in ed.)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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convex

x	-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
x+1	α ̣ -?-
x+2	ἐπὶ ¹l. ἐπεὶ ὁ στρατ̣ιώτης ἀ-
x+3	πηνγιλεν ² l. [ἀ]\|ήγγειλεν Καῆτι ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
x+4	ησ̣ασθαι τὰ φοινίκια
x+5	τὰ παρὰ σοί, καλο͂ς ³ l. καλῶς ποι-
x+6	ήσις ⁴ l. ποι\|ήσεις μὴ ἀπολῦσε ⁵ l. ἀπολῦσαι ἄνευ
x+7	γραμμάτων δεκαπρώ̣των
x+8	εἰδὼς ὅτι δικ̣α ̣ -?-

¹ l. ἐπεὶ
² l. [ἀ]|ήγγειλεν
³ l. καλῶς
⁴ l. ποι|ήσεις
⁵ l. ἀπολῦσαι

convex

x
x+1	---
x+2	since? the soldier? ---
x+3	reported to Kaes ---
x+4	to --- the dates
x+5	with you, please,
x+6	do not release (them) without
x+7	the written permission? of the decemviri
x+8	since you now that ---

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
30005	man	Kaes	Καῆτι	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				242 CE 300 CE	date according to content: dekaprotoi only after 242;

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DatasetID	309519
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	15474
Papyri.info	ddbdp/sb;14;11922
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer; Verena Lepper
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309519 (= Ostr. Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library 3145), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Verena Lepper.