Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 925

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 925
Current Location	Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit)

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
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)	The upper part is 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 surface of the potsherd, without lateral margins. the lower right crotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	51	0
Column Height (in mm)	33	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	51 x x+33	0

Text Content

Modern Title	list of persons delivered or received money
Ancient Archives	administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| account
Summary of Content	List of names accompanied with an amount of money, presumably connected with payment or with receiving money.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

x+1	¹Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ḏbꜥ.t 1.t
x+2	ḏbꜥ.t 1.t
x+3	ꜥrꜥ ²This name appears as a father in Ostr. Berlin P. 12263, line 4. (sꜣ) Lybs ³Cf. the name Λίβυς/, Dem. Lybs, on the Theban Ptolemaic Pap. Berlin P. 3142 and 3146 (all attestations are for the same person): Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 719. sttr 2.t
x+4	ḏbꜥ.t 15

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
² This name appears as a father in Ostr. Berlin P. 12263, line 4.
³ Cf. the name Λίβυς/, Dem. Lybs, on the Theban Ptolemaic Pap. Berlin P. 3142 and 3146 (all attestations are for the same person): Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 719.

x+1	[///]⸢..?..⸣: 1 obol.
x+2	[///]⸢..?.⸣: 1 obol.
x+3	Ara, son of Libys: 2 stater.
x+4	15 obols.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
13390	man	Ara, son of Libys	ꜥrꜥ sꜣ Lybs	(not identified)

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty				-332 BCE -30 BCE	Dating by palaeography;

Pictures

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Literature

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

DatasetID	307520
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 307520 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 925), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.