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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 895

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 895
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Publication Status unpublished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 incomplete
State of Preservation Lower right corner 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) Beginnings of last lines lost. Heavils faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+9+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 72 0
Column Height (in mm) 70 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 72 x x+70+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Account, details unclear due to the faded condition of the text.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.8
Reserved Copyright
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.8
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) -332 BCE -222 BCE Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.8
Reserved Copyright
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.8
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307492
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 307492 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 895), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.