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TM 68676 / LDAB 9950 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/68676

also known as Mertens-Pack 02691.390

Metadata

Date: mid 2nd - early 3rd century AD: AD 150 - 225
cf. O. Narm. Dem. 2, 1997, p. li-liii

Provenance: Narmouthis (Medinet Madi) - Egypt (EgyptThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Demotic / Greek

parallel: translation: Greek text (l. 1-6), Demotic text (l. 7-13) and a Greek serial number (l. 14)

Material: pottery — ostracon

Completely preserved

Book form: sheet; number of lines per page: 14

Content (beta!): school note, memorandum with rhetorical vocabulary

Culture & genre: literature — prose, wisdom (religion: Egyptian)

Recto/Verso: Ro, back: blank

Note: O. Narm. Gr. 1 107 (ostracon no. 12) and CdE 82 (2007), p. 256-259 no. 26 (ostracon no. 14) are written in the same hand

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, MP3Mertens-Pack 3 => 7426 links in TM

Publications

SB 30 17511 (2023) [default]

∙Chronique d'Égypte (CdE) 82 (2007), p. 256-259 no. 26 (Menchetti, Angiolo / Pintaudi, Rosario - 2007)

∙Eldamaty / Trad (ed.), Egyptian museum collections around the world 1 p. 170-172 no. 6 (Messeri, Gabriella / Pintaudi, Rosario - 2002; transcription and translation of the Greek text only)

Photo: ed. princ., pl. II f

Script & book studies: same hand as O. Narm. Gr. 1 107 (Cairo, Egyptian Museum OMM 988). The figure at the end was added by another writer.

Collections

→ Cairo, Egyptian Museum OMM 454

Egypt, Medinet Madi, excavations Univ. Milano 1938, now Cairo, Eg. Mus. JdE 8/4/48/1)

Archive

Temple of Narmouthis: house of the ostraca

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    TM 68676

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