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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 901

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Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 901
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Publication Status	unpublished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	Medium line pitch. The text convers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small margins on all sides.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	80	0
Column Height (in mm)	55	0
Height of Line / Letter	8	0
Line Distance	80 x 55	0

Text Content

Modern Title	ostracon with an administrative text
Ancient Archives	administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petepsais, son of Pachnoumis(?)
Text Types	documentary
Summary of Content	This administrative document was issued by Petepsais, son of Pachnoumis(?). Its context remains unclear due to the faded condition.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

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1	ḥsb.t 7. ı͗bd 4 šmw sw ꜥrqı͗
2
3
4	///
5	///
6	Pa-ḏı͗-H̱nm(?) sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-I͗mn
7	n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-(pꜣ-)Šy sꜣ Pa-H̱nm(?) ḥsb.t 8(?) ı͗bd 1 /// sw 9

1	7th regnal year, 30th of Mesore. ⸢..?..⸣
2	..?..
3	..?..
4	⸢///⸣
5	⸢///⸣
6	Petechnoumis(?), son of Psenamounis ⸢..?..⸣
7	Issued by Petepsais, son of Pachnoumis(?), 8th(?) regnal year, 9th of ⸢///⸣.

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
37925	man	Petechnoumis(?), son of Psenamounis	Pa-ḏı͗-H̱nm(?) sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-I͗mn	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Roman Period	08	Firth month of ?	09	-30 BCE 211 CE	;

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Literature

Kaplony-Heckel, Ursula, Eine Acker-Amt-Quittung aus Elephantine (DO Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 918) (2002). (33 n. 1)

DatasetID	307498
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 307498 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 901), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.