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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0477

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0477
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Publication Status unpublished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 50 and 150
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left and 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 left and right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary,
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Letter
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Letter to Hermogenes
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 -?- κιανὸς Ἑρμογένει -?-
2-?- γράφω μὲν σὲ 1l. σοὶἄδελφε ὅτι -?-
3 -?- φίλη πάλιν ἐγένετο -?-
4 -?- πάσχι 2l. πάσχει τὴν κεφαλὴν ὥστε -?-
5 -?- ̣ων ὅτι οὐ μὲν σοι πε -?-
6 -?- ̣σιν της εννοσον? τε̣τ ̣ -?-

1 l. σοὶ
2 l. πάσχει
convex
1---kianos to Hermogenes (greeting?). ---
2--- I write to you, brother, that ---
3--- ?-file has been again ---
4--- She? has pain in the head, so that ---
5--- that I? --- not to you ---
6---
OGL_0477-1_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
42600 man Hermogenes (letter, 1-200) Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
50 CE 150 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

OGL_0477-1_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 317505
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 317505 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0477), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.