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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 997

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 997
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Publication Status unpublished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 Left 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) All line endings are broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text shows unequal right and upper margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 72 0
Column Height (in mm) 62 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 72+y x 62 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of slaves connected with payment
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list
Summary of Content List of slaves, one female, connected with payment.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: beneficiary / deliverer of payment - Identifier of woman: none

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1Petosiris: [///]
2Pmois: yields [///] stater [///]
3Psenchnoumis: [///]
4Hierax: 15 silver (deben) ⸢..?..⸣ [///]
5Arsinoë: [///]
6Hetpeus⸢..?..⸣ [///]
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
22135 woman Arsinoe (Bodl. 997) ꜣrsyns Greek, Ancient

 

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 307559
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 307559 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 997), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.