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Persons & Deities

Ostr. unknown X

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. unknown X
Publication Number	CdE 80 (2005) 246-250
Current Location	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [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	between 100 and 299
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at left, 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 left, right and bottom
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8+y
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 to the father, content incertain
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	Ὁ δεῖνα τῷ δεῖνι -?-
2	τῷ πατρὶ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. -?-
3	πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαι σε ὑγιαίνειν (?)
4	-?- καίτοι (?) -?-
5	γινώσκειν σε θέλω, πατήρ, ὅτι ἐκολάσθην -?-
6	-?- ̣ ̣ος του παστοφόρον στατη̣ -?-
7	-?- Παήσι (?) ο ̣τος, πατήρ, εσ -?-
8	-?- κος Πετιφουτος -?-
y	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

convex

1	NN --- to NN ---
2	the father many greetings. ---
3	First of all I pray that you are in good health ---
4	--- and ---
5	--- I want you to know, father, that I need ---
6	--- the pastophoros ---
7	--- to Paesis ---, father, ---
8	---kos, son of Patephaus (?) ---
y	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
34490	man	---, son of Patephaus ?	---kos Πετιφουτος	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				100 CE 299 CE	palaeographical dating;

Literature

Martin, Alain, Un tesson pour OEdipe (2005). (246-250)

DatasetID	310420
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	140687
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310420 (= Ostr. unknown X), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.