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Ostr. Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library 3168

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library 3168
Publication Number SB I 4367
Current Location Cambridge, Harvard, Houghton Library
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 100 and 199
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left 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 left and bottom
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 to Petorzmethis, contents incertain, probably private
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 -?- Πατορζμῆθις τῷ φιλτά-
2τῳ -?- πλεῖστα χαίρειν.
3 -?- εδησις πέμψω μ̣ου
4 -?- ητωριτίων μου ἐπὶ
5 -?- εχι αὐτὸ σήμερον
6 -?- ε̣ν μὴ ἀμελήσις 1 l. ἀμελήσῃς
7 -?- λκας ουτι εικη ους
8 -?- τ̣ινα κατὰ τῆς ἀ̣ρ̣χ̣ῆ̣ς

1 l. ἀμελήσῃς
convex
1NN, to Petorzmethis, the most
2beloved, many greetings.
3--- I will send you
4--- my ? to
5--- have it tomorrow
6--- don't forget
7--- ? ---
8--- according to the beginning?
Harvard_3168_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
29995 man Petorzmethis (letter II) Πατορζμῆθις pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
100 CE 199 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

Harvard_3168_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 310262
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 29413
Papyri.info ddbdp/sb;1;4367
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 310262 (= Ostr. Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library 3168), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.