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Ostr. London, British Library 14158

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14158
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Publication Status unpublished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 1 and 199
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left, bottom 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, bottom and right side. Abraded text
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Letter of Dioskoros
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Letter of Dioskoros to his daughter, content incertain
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender women addressee in letter, daughter of sender
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Δ]ιόσκορος Θιν -?-
2 -?- θυγατρὶ Πα -?-
3 -?- ̣ χαίρειν. κο ̣ -?-
4 traces
5 traces
6 traces
7 traces
y- - - - - - - - - - - - -
convex
1Dioskoros to Then---
2--- the daughter ---
3--- greeting. ---
4 ---
5 ---
6 ---
7 ---
y- - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316355
last Change 18.08.2022
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 316355 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14158), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .