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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2354

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2354
Publication Number ined.
Current Location magazine Assuan
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
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 complete
State of Preservation broken at upper right corner and lower right corner

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) broken at right corners
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Letter
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Letter from Ammonas to Papremithes on business matters.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἀμμωνᾶς Παρεμίτει 1l. Παπρεμίθει
2χαίριν 2l. χαίρειν. καλος 3l. καλῶς ποιήσις 4l. ποιήσεις
3δοὺς Μάρ̣̣κῳ (δραχμὰς) κ, ἐρω-
4τῶ μὴ ἄλλος ποιήσις̣ 5l. ἄλλως ποιήσεις
5καὶ πέμψε μοι διὰ τοῦ
6πλοίου τὸν θρυωπω̣-
7τα̣ εἰ ἐλθῶ.
8ἔρωσ̣ ̣ -?-

1 l. Παπρεμίθει
2 l. χαίρειν
3 l. καλῶς
4 l. ποιήσεις
5 l. ἄλλως ποιήσεις
convex
1Ammonas to Papremithes
2greeting. Please,
3give to Marcus 20 dr. I
4ask you not to do otherwise
5and send me through the
6ship the ---
7--- when I come.
8Farewell. ---
DAIK_2354_S1_001
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DAIK_2354innen_S2_001
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DAIK_O2354_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38750 man Ammonas (letter) Ἀμμωνᾶς 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

DAIK_2354_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_2354innen_S2_001
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_O2354_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315872
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 315872 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2354), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .