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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 907

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 907
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Publication Status unpublished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 All four sides are 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 and lower part as well as all line beginnings and endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Very wide and inequal line pitch. Layout undetectable due to the fragmentary condition.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+4+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 68 0
Column Height (in mm) 38 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+68+y x x+38+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title ostracon with illegible text
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content Content unclear due to fragmentary condition.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex

..?..
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
Reserved Copyright
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

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.9
Reserved Copyright
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307502
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 307502 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 907), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.