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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 986

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 986
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Publication Status unpublished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 complete
State of Preservation Complete.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Complete.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper half of the potsherd, without top and lateral margins. The lower half remains uninscribed except for the date line.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 130 0
Column Height (in mm) 63 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 130 x 63 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt on grain
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Petenephotes(?) is confirmed by Onnophris, son of Imouthes, of having brought artabas of wheat.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Wn-nfr sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp pꜣ nty ḏd n Pꜣ-ḏı͗-nfr-ḥtp (?)
(free space)
5n-ḏr.t n ḥsb.t 12 ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 29
1Onnophris, son of Imouthes, is the one who speaks to Petenephotes (?)
5Issued by in the 12th regnal year, 29th of Pachons.
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
37955 man Petenephotes(?) Pꜣ-ḏı͗-nfr-ḥtp(?) pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period 12 Pachons 29 -30 BCE 211 CE ;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307549
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 307549 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 986), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.