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

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

 

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.