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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1002

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1002
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Publication Status unpublished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, but faded.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Very wide line pitch. The text was placed centered on the potsherd, with broad margins on all sides.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 55 0
Column Height (in mm) 62 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 55 x 62 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account on liquids and other items
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Account of Peteharpres, concerning liquids, mats and other items, valued in kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1pꜣ ı͗p n Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr-pꜣ-Rꜥ
2qb.t ⅓ ḥḏ qd ½
3tm.t 5.t .t 5.t[_] ḥḏ qd 2⅓(?)
4 ḥḏ qd 2
5 ḥḏ qd 15(?)
6
1The account of Peteharpres
2⅓ kebe liquid: [_] ½ kite.
35 tmt-mats and 5 ⸢..?..⸣: [_] 2⅓(?) kite.
4⸢..?..⸣ [_] 2 kite.
5⸢..?..⸣ [_] 15(?) kite.
6⸢..?..⸣ [_] ⸢..?..⸣ kite.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8090 not applicable (no further persons mentioned) (no further persons mentỈoned) (none)

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307564
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 307564 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1002), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.