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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 877+878

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 877+878
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
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation left part broken off
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) End of line broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout The text was placed centered onto the large potsherd.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 1 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 84 0
Column Height (in mm) 12 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 84+y x 12 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title one male name only
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content One name of a man only, with filiation.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. Pa-H̱nm sꜣ ..?..

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Pachnoumis, son of ..?.. [///].
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.8
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
32175 man Pachnoumis, son of ⸢..?..⸣ Pa-H̱nm sꜢ ⸢..?..⸣ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.8
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307479
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 307479 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 877+878), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.