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TM 6331 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/6331

also known as Philae Obelisk

previously also TM 913198 (double)

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Metadata

Date: BC 124 - 116

Provenance: Philai - Egypt (1st Upper Egyptian nome ElephantineThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Greek / Hieroglyphic

Material: stone — stele under temple obelisk

Incompletely preserved

Content (beta!): two royal letters + petition to sovereign
See also TM Petitions (10 formulae).

Reuse type: other text(s) on the same object: TM 103007

More info: AttalusAttalus => 1360 links in TM [2][3], PHISearchable Greek Inscriptions (Packard Humanities Institute) => 223424 links in TM [2][3][4], WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM

Publications

I. Prose 22 A (Bernand, André - 1992)
&I. Prose 22 C (Bernand, André - 1992) [default]

∙Pfeiffer, Griechische und Lateinische Inschriften zum Ptolemäerreich 29 A & C (Pfeiffer, Stefan - 2015)

∙I. Prose 22 (Bernand, André - 1992)

∙I. Philae 1 19 A (Bernand, André - 1969)

∙I. Philae 1 19 C (Bernand, André - 1969)

∙C. Ord. Ptol. 51 (Lenger, Marie-Therèse - 1964) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙C. Ord. Ptol. 52 [B] (Lenger, Marie-Therèse - 1964) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙SB 5 8396 a (Bilabel, Friedrich / Kiessling, Emil - 1938-1950)

∙SB 5 8396 c (Bilabel, Friedrich / Kiessling, Emil - 1938-1950)

∙SEG 8 787 descr. (Robert, Louis / Tod, Marcus Niebuhr / Ziebarth, Erich - 1937) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙OGIS 1 137 (Dittenberger, Wilhelm - 1903) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙OGIS 1 139 (Dittenberger, Wilhelm - 1903) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Strack, Die Dynastie der Ptolemäer p. 253-254 no. 103 [A & C] (Strack, Max Leberecht - 1897)

∙Mahaffy, The empire of the Ptolemies p. 398 n. 1 [A & C] (Mahaffy, John P. - 1895)

∙Hermes 22 (1887), p. 1-16 [A & C] (Wilcken, Ulrich - 1887)

∙CIG 3 4896 (A) (Franz, Johannes C. - 1853) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙CIG 3 4896 (C) (Franz, Johannes C. - 1853) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Letronne, Recueil des inscriptions grecques et latines de l'Égypte 1 26 (Letronne, Antoine-Jean - 1842) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Letronne, Recueil des inscriptions grecques et latines de l'Égypte 1 27 A (Letronne, Antoine-Jean - 1842) Please subscribe to follow this link

Other bibliography: Collomp, Recherches sur la chancellerie et la diplomatique des Lagides, 1926, p. 177-178 & 190 & 195; BL 5; BL 6; Bibl. Orient. 28 (1971), p. 195-197; Roccati, Scritti in onore di Orsolina Montevecchi, 1981, p. 328

Collections

→ Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes number unknown

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