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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 988

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 988
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Publication Status unpublished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 right part broken off.
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) Line beginnings of the first lines broken off..
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+7 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 100 0
Column Height (in mm) 64 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 100 x x+64 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of persons connected with deliveries or income
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content List of persons connected with deliveries or income.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x+1
x+2 45 r glṱ 1
x+3 42
x+4 Ḥr sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mtr 41
x+5 Qh 41
x+6 Pꜣ-šy (sꜣ) By-ꜥnḫ 41½
x+7 Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r 42
x+1 [///] ⸢..?..⸣ [///]
x+2 [///]: 45, for ⸢1⸣ ring.
x+3 [///]: 42.
x+4 Horos, son of Espmetis: 41.
x+5 Q..?..eh..?..: [_] 41.
x+6 Psais, son of Bienchis: 41½
x+7 [[Petosiris]]: [_] [[ 42]]
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
26270 man Horos, son of Espmetis (Bodl 988) Ḥr sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mtr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period -30 BCE 211 CE Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307551
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 307551 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 988), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.