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Ostr. London, British Library 12151

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12151
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Publication Status unpublished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 complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 10
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Letter
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Letter from Antiochos to Onnophris, concerning a loan, mentioning interest
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἀντίοχος Ὀννώφρι χαίρειν.
2 νομισσις οφιλος
3 ου̣ν̣ ὑπὲρ τῶν
4 ἐνεχύρων ἀπο-
5 λαβιν συν τόκοις
6 ευ ουν ποιησις
7 χρισας αυτον
8 ιδοος 1(ειδως?) οτι και
9 τω ακυρουν
10 ερρωσο

1 (ειδως?)
convex
1Antiochos to Onnophris greeting.
2 not further translated
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
30435 man Antiochos (letter II) Greek, Ancient

 

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previousely unpublished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 316311
last Change 19.08.2022
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 316311 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12151), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .