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Ostr. St. Petersburg, Hermitage O. 137 a

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. St. Petersburg, Hermitage O. 137 a
Publication Number	SB 13211 = O.Erem. 34
Current Location	St. Petersburg, Eremitage
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
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	between 1 and 299
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	surface damaged

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	surface abraded
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Letter
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	Letter concerning business in a ship yard?
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	photo missing.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	Ἰο̣ῦ̣σ̣τ̣ο̣ς Λολλίῳ χαίρειν. τοὺς ἥλους,
2	οὓς ἠγόρασας, ἐπιμελῶς τήρησον, ὅπως
3	Τύραννος ὁ κυβερνήτης μαρτυρήσῃ μοι, ὅτι
4	διὰ αὐτοῦ ὁμοῦ ἐδαπανήθησαν. τὸ ξύλον
5	τὸ̣ ̣ ̣κινον τὸ ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ, ἂν ¹l. ἐὰν χρήζῃς,
6	εἰς τὰ χ(?)ώματα λαβὲ καὶ ἐνκύλια ²l. ἐγκοίλια,
7	ἂν ³l. ἐὰν χρήζῃς, ἐκ τοῦ δώματο̣ς λαβέ,
8	ἔπεμψά σοι ἄλλας (δραχμὰς) ιβ (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) μ̣.

¹ l. ἐὰν
² l. ἐγκοίλια
³ l. ἐὰν

convex

1	Iustus to Lollius, greeting. Of the nails
2	which you have bought, take good care, so that
3	Tyrannos, the skipper, will swear to me, that they were
4	used up through him at once (completely?). The wood,
5	the --- sitting in the yard, if you have need of it,
6	take it to the ---, and the ribs of a ship (belly timbers)
7	if you have need, take them out of the house.
8	I have sent you further 12 dr., = 12 dr.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
28780	man	Iustus	Ἰο̣ῦ̣σ̣τ̣ο̣ς	Latin

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				1 CE 299 CE	paleaography;

Literature

Bilabel, Friedrich, BL 2,2: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band II, 2 (1933). (13)
Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Hengstl, Joachim, Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XVIII (Nr. 13083-14068) (1993). (no. 13211)
Zereteli, Grigorij Filimonovic, Griechische Ostraka in der Kaiserlichen Eremitage in St. Petersburg (1913). (no. 34)

DatasetID	310226
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	25395
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.erem;;34
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310226 (= Ostr. St. Petersburg, Hermitage O. 137 a), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.