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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 2283

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 2283
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Publication Status unpublished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 10+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 -?- ς θυγατρὶ Τ̣απίας ἀπὸ Ἐλεφαντίνης
2 -?- ω ἀκτουαρίου Ἐλεφαντίνης
3χαίρειν. ὁμολογῷ ἔχειν σοῦ καὶ χρεωστεῖν σοι διὰ
4χειρὸς τιμὴν? εἵκοσι πέντε γίνονται ψιάθια μεικρὰ κε
5 -?- ος ἀποκαταστήσωμε̣ν̣
6 -?- Τυβι τῆς μελλούσης
7 -?- ἰν̣δικτίονος ἀναντιρήτως
8 -?- οκητης
9 -?- ηις ὀρδινάριος ἀρίθμου
10 -?- Ἐλ̣εφαντίνης
convex
1--- to --- daughter of Tapia, from Elephantine,
2--- of the actuarius at Elephantine,
3--- greeting. I acknowledge to have from you and owe to you in
4cash the price? of 25 (small mats?), = 25 small mats,
5--- which we will pay back
6--- in Tybi of the coming
7--- indiction without delay
8--- ?
9--- ordinarius of the unit
10of Elephantine
OGL_2283_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_2283_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 317887
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 317887 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 2283), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.