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Ostr. Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library 3145

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Metadata

Collection

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

Origin / Provenance

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

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

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) 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

 

Text Content

Modern Title Letter
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
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

 

Text

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

1 l. ἐπεὶ
2 l. [ἀ]|ήγγειλεν
3 l. καλῶς
4 l. ποι|ήσεις
5 l. ἀπολῦσαι
convex
x
x+1---
x+2since? the soldier? ---
x+3reported to Kaes ---
x+4to --- the dates
x+5with you, please,
x+6do not release (them) without
x+7the written permission? of the decemviri
x+8since you now that ---
Harvard_3145_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

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

 

Dates

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;

 

Pictures

Harvard_3145_S1_001
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Literature

 

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.