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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 908

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Metadata

Collection

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Publication Status unpublished

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, lower and right 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 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

 

Text Content

Modern Title account
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x+1 1Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ḏbꜥ.t 12
x+2 sttr 2.t ḏbꜥ.t 12
x+3 Pa-ꜣs.t pꜣ nf

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
x+1 [///] 12 obols.
x+2 [///] 2 stater and 12 obols.
x+3 [///] Paesis, the skipper.
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
26630 man Paesis [son or father?] (Bodl 908) Pa-Ꜣs.t 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.9
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Literature

 

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.