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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 889

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 889
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Publication Status unpublished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, but faded.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text convers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, without a right margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 10 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 55 0
Column Height (in mm) 114 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 55 x 114 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of priests on-duty
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content List of priests on duty, 10 persons. Most are accompanied with an OK sign.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1OK Pete⸢.?..⸣.
2Petosorsmetis ⸢.?..⸣.
3Peteminis ⸢///⸣ ⸢Pelaias(?)⸣⸢///⸣.
4OK Phaminis ⸢///⸣.
5OK Psemminis ⸢///⸣.
6OK [[///]]Espmetis, (son) of Paretis.
7OK Payris.
8OK Pachnoumis.
9Espmetis(?) [///].
10Paretis [_] ⸢..?..⸣[///].
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
35940 man Espmetis (Bodl 889) Ns-pꜣ-mtr(?) 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 307489
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 307489 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 889), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.