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Inventory Number | Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 908 |
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Publication Status | unpublished |
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 Type | ostracon |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Upper, lower and right parts broken off in undetermined extent. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
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 broken off in undetermined extent. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon. All line endings are oriented towards the rim on the left side. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | x+3 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 39 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 30 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | x+39 x x+30+y | 0 |
Modern Title | account |
Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Fragment of an account, mentioning persons and amounts of money in stater and obols. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||
1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
26630 | man | Paesis [son or father?] (Bodl 908) | Pa-Ꜣs.t | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic dynasty | -332 BCE -30 BCE | Dating by palaeography.; |
DatasetID | 307503 |
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 307503 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 908), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |