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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0083

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0083
Publication Number	ined.
Current Location	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
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Publication Status	unpublished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)	Clermont-Ganneau, Charles Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	excavation finds
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Tuckett, Francis Fox Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 100 and 300
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	surface damaged

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,
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	18
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Letter
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	Letter of ---ttetos to Tithoes concerning pitch and jars which should be tarred
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	woman adressee
Religion	unknown

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1	Ἀ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣τ᾿τητος Τιθοήει
2	(vac.) χαίρειν.
3	γένου πρὸς παντὰς τοὺς κερα-
4	μῖς ¹l. κεραμεῖς καὶ λαβὲ παρ᾿ αὐτῶν κοῦ-
5	φα εἰς ἀνάλογον ἡμισφυριδίου
6	πίσσης. καὶ πισσωσάτωσαν
7	αὐτὰ τὰ κοῦφα. πέμπω γὰρ
8	πρὸς σὲ Ὡρκατιν πρὸς σὲ
9	ἵνα αὐτὰ ἀνενέγκῃ.
10	τὸ δὲ ἄλλο ἡμισφυρί-
11	διον δώσεις Παιωνι
12	συμφωνήσας πρὸς
13	αὐτὸν το τησ ̣ ̣ ̣ης
14	καὶ ἔασον παρ᾿ αὐ-
15	τῷ ὡς θέλει
16	διὰ τὸ πρᾶ-
17	γμα ἡμῶν.
18	ἔρρωσο.

¹ l. κεραμεῖς

1	A---ttetos to Tithoes
2	greeting.
3	Go to all the potters
4	and get from them jars
5	for the equivalent of half a spyridion
6	of pitch. And they shall tar
7	these jars. Because I send
8	to you Horkatis,
9	that he fetches them.
10	The other half sphyridion
11	you shall give to Paion and
12	you shall acknowledge to
13	him the ---
14	And leave it with him,
15	how he will proceed
16	because of this matter
17	of ours.
18	Farewell.

OGL_0083_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
42580	woman	Tithoes (letter)		pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				100 CE 300 CE	palaeographical dating;

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OGL_0083_S1_001

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Literature

Duttenhöfer, Ruth, Étude paléographique (2012). ()

DatasetID	317380
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 317380 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0083), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.