Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 984
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 984 |
| 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unpublished |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 |
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 |
Late Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Roman Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Wide line pitch.
The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon, with a broad margin on top. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
5(+y?) |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
93 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
98 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
x+93+y x 98 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
list of persons or account |
| Ancient Archives |
administrative archive of unclear context |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | account
- documentary | list
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| Summary of Content |
List of names, possibly account. Mentioning the reeds of Elephantine in unclear context. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | |
Pa-
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2 | |
Det. (sꜣ) Pꜣ-s-n-
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3 | | ptrs
This name can possibly be completed to Antipatros (ꜣntptrs) or Sopatros (Sptrs), cf. LÜDDECKENS, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 22 or W. CLARYSSE – D. J. THOMPSON, Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt, Volume I. Population registers (P. Count), Cambridge 2006, no. 9:38 (Gurob, post 251 BCE).
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4 | | Det. For this personal determinative cf. line 1. pꜣ ꜥkr n Yb
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5 | |
1 This name can possibly be completed to Antipatros (ꜣntptrs) or Sopatros (Sptrs), cf. LÜDDECKENS, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 22 or W. CLARYSSE – D. J. THOMPSON, Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt, Volume I. Population registers (P. Count), Cambridge 2006, no. 9:38 (Gurob, post 251 BCE).
2 For this personal determinative cf. line 1.
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1 | | [///] Pa⸢..?..⸣ [///] |
2 | | [///]..?.. Det. (son) of Psa[///] |
3 | | [///]patros ⸢..?..⸣ |
4 | | [///]Det. (of) the reed of Elephantine |
5 | | [///]⸢..?..⸣[///]
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| Places (read out from edition) Yb (places.xml#s3) |
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People mentioned in Text
Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Roman Period |
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-30 BCE 211 CE |
Dating by palaeography.; |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
307547 |
| 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 307547 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 984), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
