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Inventory Number | Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 956 |
Current Location | magazine |
Publication Permission Status | (unknown) |
Publication Status | published |
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 | (unknown) Certainty: high |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | (unknown) 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 | donation |
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 1984 and 1984 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Oxford, Manchester Collection Certainty: high |
Object Type | ostracon |
Color | pottery, red brown |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Left part broken off in undetermined extent. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Parts of column 2 and possibly nearly the complete column 3 are missing. | |
Script, Primary | Late Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Roman Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with broad margins on the right side and on top. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 2+11+11+x | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 3 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 100 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 205 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | x+100 x 205+y | 0 |
Modern Title | onomasticon, geographically assorted |
Ancient Archives | unclear |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | List consisting of two (three?) columns with toponyms in geographical order assorted from south to north, with only some exceptions. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 All reconstructions in ths text according to M. Smith. For the one in II,3:
Litt. ‘The-house-of-him-who-is-very-ancient’. 2 Litt. ‘The-quarry’. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
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) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Roman Period | -30 BCE 211 CE | ; |
DatasetID | 307464 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 51130 |
Author | Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography) |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307464 (= Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 956), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography). |