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Ostr. Paris, AIBL CIS, Clermont-Ganneau no. 207

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, AIBL CIS, Clermont-Ganneau no. 207
Publication Number Mémoires 35 no. 207
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status published

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 donation
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1911 and 1911
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Clermont-Ganneau, Charles
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, light brown
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The lower part ist lost today.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Text-Localization, Addendum cc traces ; cv: parallel.
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) On the convex side, the beginning of two columns with 6 resp.4 lines are preserved.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Unsteady line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small margins on top and at the left side. The line beginnings arevery close to the right rim.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6 + 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 + 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 95 0
Column Height (in mm) 50 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 95 x 50 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title school exercise: mathematics/ fractions
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific | math
Summary of Content Two columns with mathematical school exercise of fractions (1/3) of the numbers 65 till 70, resp. 84 till 87.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
I
I,1pꜣ ⅓ 65 21⅔
I,2pꜣ ⅓ 66 22
I,3pꜣ ⅓ 67 22⅓
I,4pꜣ ⅓ 68 22⅔
I,5pꜣ ⅓ 69 23
I,6pꜣ ⅓ 70 23⅓
II
II,1pꜣ ⅓ 84 28
II,2pꜣ ⅓ 85 28⅓
II,3pꜣ ⅓ 86 28 ⅔
II,4pꜣ ⅓ 87 29
II,5ff.
concave
I
I,1˹One third of 65˺ is 21⅔.
I,2One third of 66 is 22.
I,3One third of 67 is 22⅓.
I,4One third of 68 is 22⅔.
I,5One third of 69 is 23.
I,6˹One third of 70 is 23⅓˺.
II
II,1One third of 84 is 28.
II,2One third of 85 is 28⅓.
II,3One third of 86 is ˹28 ⅔˺.
II,4One [third of 87 is 29].
II,5ff.[///]
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

Dates

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

 

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307425
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 112845
Author Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); James D. Moore (Metadata)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307425 (= Ostr. Paris, AIBL CIS, Clermont-Ganneau no. 207), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); James D. Moore (Metadata).