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Ostr. London, British Library 12132

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12132
Publication Number ined
Current Location London, British Library
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine / Syene () [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery purchase
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Chester, Greville John
Certainty: high
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 right side.

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 right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragment
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | Order for payment or delivery
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Fragment of a receipt or an order for payment from the temple administration (prostates)
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)
Comment on Religion prostatais tou A() theou (of Ammon?) the god

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1 -?- ̣ ̣ -?-
x+2 -?- ̣ ̣ω καὶ Οὐαλερίῳ ̣ -?-
x+3[π]ρ̣οστάταις τοῦ̣ α̅ θεοῦ̣ -?-
x+4 λας δραχμὰς ἑκατὸν -?-
x+5Ἁθὺρ ιη̅ -?-
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1---
x+2--- to --- and Valerios ---
x+3the prostatai of the first? god ---
x+4--- hundred drachmas ---
x+5Hathyr 18.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
30250 man Valerios (prostates of A() the god) Οὐαλέριος Latin

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316303
last Change 15.08.2022
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 316303 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12132), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .