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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 919

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 919
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Publication Status unpublished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 Left and lower 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) Lower part and all line endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle to Late Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic - Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. Broad right and upper margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 54 0
Column Height (in mm) 40 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 54+y x 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title ostracon with an administrative text
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
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
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 Prts
2 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr-nfr(?)
3/// sw 16
1..?.. Protos [///]
2..?.. Issued by Peterharnouphis(?) [///]
3⸢///⸣..?.. 16th day.
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
37565 man Protos (?) Prts (?) Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty or Roman Period -332 BCE 211 CE ;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307514
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 307514 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 919), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.