Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 899
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 899 |
| 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unpublished |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 |
Middle Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Wide line pitch.
The text was placed onto the upper two-third of the potsherd, without lateral margins. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
6 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
70 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
52 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
70 x 52 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
account on ointment and beer |
| Ancient Archives |
Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content |
Account on ointment, beer and possibly garlands(?), sorted by specific days. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | sw 16 sgn.w qlm(?) ḥḏ qd 7½ |
2 | | ḥnq 13 wp-st |
3 | | Pꜣy-Mn 15 pš.(t)(?) ḥḏ qd 7½ |
4 | | sw 18 sgn 2 pš(.t)(?) 1
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5 | | sw 28 sgn 2 pš(.t)(?) 1
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6 | | sw 20
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1 | | 16th day: ointments, garland(?): 7½ kite |
2 | | ⸢..?..⸣ 13 (jars) beer. Specification: |
3 | | Pamenis 15, half(?): 7½ kite. |
4 | | 18th day: ointment 2, half: 1. |
5 | | 28th day: ointment 2, half(?): 1. |
6 | | 20th day: ..?..
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
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man |
Pamenis |
Pꜣy-Mn |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic dynasty |
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-332 BCE -30 BCE |
Internal dating, without name of the ruler.; |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
307496 |
| 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 307496 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 899), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
