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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 880

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 880
Current Location Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit)
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished

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 complete
State of Preservation Complete.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Complete.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the complete surface of the potsherd, with broad lateral margins. The upper right crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 11 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 68 0
Column Height (in mm) 122 0
Height of Line / Letter 7
Line Distance 68 x 122 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of persons connected with deliveries or income
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content List of persons connected with deliveries or income. Only at the end a total is given. Only two males are mentioned, who are listed more than once on specific days.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1dmḏ s
2sw 9 Pa-H̱nm sttr <_> ḥḏ qd 7½
3sw 10 Pa-H̱nm sttr 1
4sw 13 Pa-wn sttr 1 ḥḏ qd 5
5sw 14 Pa-wn sttr 2 ḥḏ qd 7½
6sw 15 Pa-wn sttr 2 ḥḏ qd 7½
7sw 18 Pa- sttr 2 ḥḏ qd 1
8sw 21 /// sttr 1 ḥḏ qd 5
9///
10bnt(?) ntı͗
11r sttr 24 ḥḏ qd 7
1Total of ..?..
29th day: Pachnoumis: <_> stater, 7½ kite.
310th day: Pachnoumis: 1 stater.
413th day: Phagonis: 1 stater, 5 kite.
514th day: Phagonis 2 stater, 7½ kite.
615th day: Phagonis: 2 stater, 7½ kite.
718th day: Pa..?.. 2 stater, 1 kite.
821st day: ⸢///⸣: 1 stater, 5 kite.
9⸢///⸣⸢..?..⸣
10date palm(?), which ..?..
11Yields 24 stater, 7 kite.
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
35625 man Pachnoumis (Bodl 880) Pa-H̱nm pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period -30 BCE 211 CE ;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.8
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307482
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 307482 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 880), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.