Ostr. Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie Inv. 519

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie Inv. 519
Publication Number	O.Heid. 428
Current Location	Heidelberg, Institute for Papyrology
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]
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Deutsches Papyruskartell Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	broken in 4 fragments and joined

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	12
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Letter
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	Private letter of Bienchis to his mother Tapas
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Comments on Text	ok epistates?
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	women addressee in letter, mother of sender
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)
Comment on Religion	proskynema

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	Βιῆνχις Ταπᾶτι τῇ μη-
2	τρὶ πολλὰ χαιρι ¹ l. χαίρειν καὶ τους ²l. τοῖς ἀ-
3	δελφος ³ l. ἀ\|δελφοῖς καὶ Σεραπίωνος
4	τοῦ ἐπιστάτου μου τὸ προσκύνη-
5	μα καὶ τους ⁴ l. τῶν παρ’ αὐτους ⁵ l. αὐτῷ ? <ποιῶ>. μεμα-
6	χισμε ⁶ l. μεμά\|χεσμαι μετὰ Ψεντινβαβα καὶ ἀ-
7	πῆλθα. οὐδὲν ἔχι ⁷l. ἔχει με ὧδε ἔσω.
8	τὸ προσκύνημα ἡ̣μῶν ⁸ l. ὑμῶν πυῶ ⁹ l. ποιῶ
9	παρὰ τοῖς ἐνθάδε θεοῖς.
10	ἐρῶσσθε ¹⁰ l. ἐρρῶσθαι οἱμᾶς ¹¹ l. ὑμᾶς εὔχομε ¹²l. εὔχομαι.
11	ἧκα ὧδε διὰ̣ Παυλῖνον χορ-
12	ζὶν ¹³ l. χορ\|δὴν ἐνεκκε ¹⁴ l. ἔνεγκε τοῖς πεδίοις ¹⁵ l. παιδίοις.

¹ l. χαίρειν
² l. τοῖς
³ l. ἀ|δελφοῖς
⁴ l. τῶν
⁵ l. αὐτῷ ?
⁶ l. μεμά|χεσμαι
⁷ l. ἔχει
⁸ l. ὑμῶν
⁹ l. ποιῶ
¹⁰ l. ἐρρῶσθαι
¹¹ l. ὑμᾶς
¹² l. εὔχομαι
¹³ l. χορ|δὴν
¹⁴ l. ἔνεγκε
¹⁵ l. παιδίοις

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1	Bienchis to his mother Tapas
2	many greetings and to his
3	brothers. And I pray for Sarapion,
4	my epistates(?)
5	and his people.
6	I have quarreled with Psentinbaba and
7	went away. Nothing ails me here.
8	I pray for you
9	by the gods of this place.
10	I wish you farewell.
11	I came here because of Paulinus.
12	Bring for the children/slaves a chord(?)

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
33335	man	Bienchis (O.Heid 428)	Βιῆνχις	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				75 CE 150 CE	palaeographical dating, cf. Papyri.info;

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Literature

DatasetID	309557
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	80117
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.heid;;428
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309557 (= Ostr. Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie Inv. 519), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.