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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 2275

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 2275
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Publication Status unpublished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 of Object byzantine (Coptic) Period
Dating between 400 and 600
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left, right and bottom

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, right and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary,
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title contract
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | contract
Summary of Content Contract of loan.
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 -?- ος Μηνᾶς Τααμ -?-
2 -?- ε̣ταλια γα̣μέτη τοῦ … -?-
3 -?- ὁμολογῶ ἔχειν σοῦ καὶ χρεω̣στεῖν -?-
4 -?- μυριάδας πεντε μ -?-
5 -?- traces -?-
convex
1(Aureli?)os Menas, son of Taam---
2 ---talia, wife of ---
3--- I acknowledge to have received from you and owe
4--- 5 solidi
5---
OGL_2275_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Byzantine (Coptic) Period 400 CE 600 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

OGL_2275_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 317885
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 317885 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 2275), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.