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Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 956

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 956
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
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 (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

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, red brown
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Left part broken off in undetermined extent.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

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) 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

 

Text Content

Modern Title onomasticon, geographically assorted
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | onomasticon
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1|
I
I,1nꜣ spe.w n Wsı͗r ḥnꜣ nꜣ dmꜣ.w
I,2n Šmꜥ Mḥy wp-st
II
II,1Yb
II,2Swn
II,3Pr-ꜥꜣ-ı͗ꜣwy 1All reconstructions in ths text according to M. Smith. For the one in II,3: Litt. ‘The-house-of-him-who-is-very-ancient’.
II,4I͗nbꜣ
II,5Tꜣ-ẖe.t 2Litt. ‘The-quarry’.
II,6Pr-wr--me
II,7Bḥṱ
II,8Ḏbꜣ
II,9Nḫb
II,10Mḫn
II,11 Pr-myr
III
III,1Qbṱ
III,2I͗mbt
III,3I͗y-ẖn(?)
III,4Syt
III,5( Pꜣ-ı͗nyPꜣ-ı͗py Pꜣ-ı͗ny ?)
III,6Ḥ.t-
III,7I͗wn-
III,8Ḫtyw-Mn(?)
III,9Ḥ.t-Sḫm
III,10Šn.w n Sṱ
III,11Pr-sngr(?)
IV
IV,1

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’.
convex
I
I,1The nomes of Osiris and the towns
I,2of Upper and Lower Egypt. Specification:
II
II,1Elephantine.
II,2Syene.
II,3The temple of Haroeris in Kom Ombo.
II,4Kom Ombo.
II,5Gebel es-Silsile.
II,6Per-wer-(?)-me.
II,7Edfu-Behdet.
II,8Edfu-Djeba.
II,9El Kab.
II,10Hierakonpolis.
II,11Komir.
III
III,1Coptos.
III,2Ombos.
III,3I͗y-chen(?).
III,4‘Serpent’.
III,5Pa-ipy (Pa-iny?).
III,6‘House-of-[///]’.
III,7Dandara(?).
III,8Chet[yw-Min(?)].
III,9Dios[polis].
III,10Chen[oboskia].
III,11Pers[enger(?)].
IV
IV,1˹..?..˺
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Yb (places.xml#s3)
  • Swn (places.xml#s8)
  • Pr-ꜥꜣ-ı͗ꜣwy (places.xml#s86)
  • I͗nbꜣ (places.xml#s11)
  • Tꜣ-ẖe.t (places.xml#s87)
  • Pr-wr--me (places.xml#s88)
  • Bḥṱ (places.xml#s89)
  • Ḏbꜣ (places.xml#s29)
  • Nḫb (places.xml#s30)
  • Mḫn (places.xml#s48)
  • -myr (places.xml#s91)
  • Qbṱ (places.xml#s92)
  • I͗mbt (places.xml#s93)
  • I͗y-ẖn(?) (places.xml#s94)
  • Syt (places.xml#s95)
  • ( ?) (places.xml#s96)
  • Ḥ.t- (places.xml#s97)
  • I͗wn- (places.xml#s98)
  • Ḫt (places.xml#s99)
  • Ḥ.t- (places.xml#s64)
  • Šn (places.xml#s100)
  • Pr-s (places.xml#s101)
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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
    Roman Period -30 BCE 211 CE ;

     

    Pictures

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    Literature

     

    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).