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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0422

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0422
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Publication Status	unpublished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 200
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at right

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 right
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary,
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	15
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	letter
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| letter \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Letter of Sarapion to his brother Sarapion, concerning affairs of a praktor about the demands of the Panopolite about various items of clothing
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

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Translation

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1	Σαραπίων Σαρα-
2	πίωνι τῷ ἀδελφῷ
3	πλεῖστα χαίρειν.
4	καλῶς ποιήσις συνβα-
5	λῶν τῷ κολλήγᾳ σοῦ
6	πράκτορι περὶ τῆς ἐντολῆς
7	τοῦ Πανοπο̣λ-?. ἔστι δὲ·
8	στολ̣αὶ δύο, γαύνακας β, ¹l. γαυνάκαι?
9	μαλλωτοὶ χιθῶνες β μ̣ι̣κρὰς? ἀ̣λ̣ίκλαι
10	ὁμοίως ọ μεχρι? ετων ι̅ β̅
11	ἀλλὰ μὴ ἄλλως ἐπὶ πο̣λ̣-
12	λά μοι ἐνετίλατο ὅτι ̣ -?-
13	ἔρρωσθαι σε -?-
14	καὶ περὶ α -?-
15	καὶ περὶ -?-

¹ l. γαυνάκαι?

convex

1	Sarapion to Sara-
2	pion the brother,
3	many greetings.
4	You do well to discuss
5	with your collegue
6	practor about the demands?
7	of the Panopolite: it is:
8	two robes*, two cloaks?,
9	two fleecy tunics
10	ditto 2 in the size fit for 10 years,
11	don't do otherwise, since he repeatedly
12	gave me instructions ---
13	Fare well ---
14	and about ---
15	and about ---

OGL_0422_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
42120	man	Sarapion (brother of Sarapion, praktor?, II)		pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

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

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OGL_0422_S1_001

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	317486
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 317486 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0422), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.