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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 917

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Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 917
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Publication Status	unpublished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 past as well as both lateral 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)	All line beginnings and endings 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.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+5	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	52	0
Column Height (in mm)	42	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	x+52+y x 42	0

 

Text Content

Modern Title	ostracon with illegible text
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [lost])
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

 

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Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early)				-332 BCE -222 BCE	;

 

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Literature

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

 

DatasetID	307512
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 307512 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 917), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.