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Collection | London, British Museum |
Inventory Number | Ostr. London, BM EA 12167 |
Current Location | magazine |
Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
Ancient Provenance Details | (unknown) |
Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Discovery | find (unspecified) Certainty: high |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | Rev Greville John Chester Certainty: high |
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt | unknown |
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | purchase |
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 9 11 1878 and 9 11 1878 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Chester, Greville John Certainty: high |
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) | Junker, Hermann Certainty: high |
Object Type | ostracon |
Dating of Object | Graeco-Roman |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Surface abraded and damaged. Left and lower parts broken off in undetermined extent. |
Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | All line beginnings broken off in undetermined extent. Lower part broken off in undetermined extent. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 6 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 70 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 74 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | x+70 x 74+y | 0 |
Modern Title | list of priests on-duty |
Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | List of names of priests of a second phyle on-duty in the temple, presumably the Chnoum temple. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
26490 | man | Pelaias, son of Pachnoumis (BM EA 12167) | Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ sꜣ Pa-H̱nm | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) | -332 BCE -222 BCE | Dating by palaeography.; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 307378 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 388585 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307378 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12167), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |