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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 897

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 897
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Publication Status unpublished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 Upper and left parts broken off in undetermined extent.
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) Upper part and all line endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The lower part remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+5 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 85 0
Column Height (in mm) 52 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 85+y x x+52 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account (?)
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Presumably account, but main part of text lost.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x+1 1Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. Pꜣ-ḏı͗-ꜣs.t sꜣ
x+2 ///
x+3 Wn-nfr sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-Wsı͗r (sꜣ) Pꜣ-šr-n-
x+4 2.t
x+5

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
x+1 ⸢Peteesis, son of⸣ [///]
x+2 [_] ⸢..?..⸣
x+3 ⸢Onnophris, son of Psenosiris⸣, (son) of Psenen[///]
x+4 Two.
x+5 ..?.. [///]
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.8
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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
26260 man Onnophris, son of Psenosiris, son of Psenen[///] Wn-nfr sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-Wsı͗r sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-n-[///] pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.8
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.8
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307494
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 307494 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 897), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.