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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1009

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Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1009
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Publication Status unpublished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 and lower parts broken off in undetermined extent.
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) Upper and lower part broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon, and was oriented along the right rim. The left crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+12 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 52 0
Column Height (in mm) 83 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 52 x x+83+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of persons connected with deliveries
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
  • documentary | list
Summary of Content List of persons connected with deliveries, but without mentioning the delivered items or amounts of money.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x+1 r ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-
x+2 rḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-ꜣs.t
x+3 rḏr.t ///
x+4 rḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-nfy(?) 1For the writings of this name cf. LÜDDECKENS, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 445.
x+5 r ḏr.t Pꜣ-hbr
x+6 r ḏr.t Syf 2Reguarly this name was written with the 4-sign for an initial S- and without the foreigners determinative, cf. LÜDDECKENS, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 905 and 215.
x+7 r ḏr.t Pꜣ-
x+8 r ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-ꜣs.t 3This is a typical roman writing of ꜣs.t. Cf. also line 10.
x+9
x+10 Pꜣ-ḏı͗-ꜣs.t ꜥn
x+11 r ḏr.t
x+12

1 For the writings of this name cf. LÜDDECKENS, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 445.
2 Reguarly this name was written with the 4-sign for an initial S- and without the foreigners determinative, cf. LÜDDECKENS, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 905 and 215.
3 This is a typical roman writing of ꜣs.t. Cf. also line 10.
x+1 From Pete[///].
x+2 From Peteesis.
x+3 From ⸢///⸣.
x+4 From Petenefy.
x+5 From Paheber.
x+6 From Sefis.
x+7 From P..?.. .
x+8 From Peteesis.
x+9 ..?..
x+10 Peteesis anew.
x+11 From ⸢..?..⸣[///].
x+12 ⸢..?..⸣[///].
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
26425 (uncertain) ..?.. (Bod. 1009) ..?.. (not identified)

 

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 307571
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 307571 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1009), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.