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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 992

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 992
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Publication Status unpublished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 Unclear how much is 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) Heavily faded. Unclear how much is broken off.
Script, Primary Demotic
Language, Primary Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Layout unclear due to heavily faded script.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 0 0
Column Height (in mm) 0 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance [unclear] 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title ostracon with illegible text
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
Reserved Copyright
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
5 (unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown) German

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
Reserved Copyright
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 307554
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 307554 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 992), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.