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Ostr. London, BM EA 12167

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 12167
Current Location magazine

Origin / Provenance

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

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.

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) 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

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of priests on-duty
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. sꜣ 2 Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ sꜣ Pa-
2-H̱nm sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-ḥtr(?)
3Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ sꜣ Pa-H̱nm
4 sꜣ Pa-H̱nm
5
6

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1[///] second Phyle: Pelaias, son of Pa[///].
2[///]chnoumis, son of Esphatres(?).
3Pelaias, son of Pachnoumis.
4[///], son of Pachnoumis.
5[///]⸢..?..⸣
6[///]⸢..?..⸣
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

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

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) -332 BCE -222 BCE Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

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London_BM_EA-12167_S2_
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Literature

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.