Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 595

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 595
Current Location	Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit)

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	find (unspecified) Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	(unknown) Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	ostracon
State of Preservation	The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. The upper left part is lost.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
State of Preservation (Text)	All endings of lines x+1-5 are lost.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the preserved potsherd.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+10+y	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	23	0
Column Height (in mm)	49	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	23 x x+49+y	0

Text Content

Modern Title	list of priests on-duty
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| list \| name list
Summary of Content	List of names of priests on-duty in the temple, presumably the Chnoum temple.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

x+1	¹Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.H̱nm-
x+2	H̱nm-
x+3	H̱nm-ı͗w
x+4	Pꜣ-..?..
x+5	Pa-H̱nm
	horizontal black line
x+6
x+7	H̱nm-
x+8	Wsı͗r-ı͗w (sꜣ) Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r
x+9	Tryn ²This is a short form for Twrı͗ꜣn, the Demotic full version of Dorion (Δωρίον). See Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 1270.
x+10	Pꜣ-ḏı͗-

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
² This is a short form for Twrı͗ꜣn, the Demotic full version of Dorion (Δωρίον). See Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 1270.

x+1	Chnoum-[///].
x+2	Chnoum-[///].
x+3	Chenemeus.
x+4	P..?.. [///]
x+5	Pachnoumis ⸢..?..⸣ [///].
x+6	..?..
x+7	Chnoum-⸢..?..⸣.
x+8	Esoreus, (son) of Petosiris.
x+9	Dorion.
x+10	Pete⸢..?..⸣.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
13410	man	Chenemeus (EgInscr 595)	Hnm-ıw	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty				-332 BCE -30 BCE	;

Pictures

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Literature

Kaplony-Heckel, Ursula, Eine Acker-Amt-Quittung aus Elephantine (DO Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 918) (2002). (33 n. 1)

DatasetID	307476
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307476 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 595), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.