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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2536

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2536
Publication Number ined. lit.
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Publication Status unpublished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 200
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left

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
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting literary
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 13
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title mythological narrative
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • literary
  • literary | narrative | prose
Summary of Content Mythological narrative on Zeus and Thetis
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text Text published in: Stadt und Tempel von Elephantine, 31./32. Grabungsbericht, G. Dreyer et alii, Ruth Duttenhöfer, Nr. XIV, Die Griechischen Ostraka, MDAIK 61, 2005, 121-125.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (other)
Comment on Religion greek mythology, Zeus, Thetis, Prometheus

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
100 CE 200 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O2536_ELE-43-PW-0
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_2536-1_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_2536innen_S2_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 315910
last Change 17.08.2022
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 315910 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2536), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).