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Tablet Cairo EM (unknown b) "plaquette Rubensohn"

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Tablet Cairo EM (unknown b) "plaquette Rubensohn"
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status (unknown)

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) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
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 partage
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1906 and 1906
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type tablet
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 66 mm | 44 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Reused from a stone with square grids.
Mounting (unknown)
Comments on Object Palimpsest.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object verso
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
State of Preservation (Text) Unknown.
Script, Primary Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic

 

Text Content

Modern Title Account (?)
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Account(?)
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period - Ptolemaic dynasty -664 BCE -30 BCE Date currently unclear.;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307461
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 58088
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307461 (= Tablet Cairo EM (unknown b) "plaquette Rubensohn"), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.