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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1030

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1030
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Publication Status unpublished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 Right and left bottom parts 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) Last line damaged.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed onto the lower two-thirds of the potsherd, with a small right margin, and broad upper and left margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 70 0
Column Height (in mm) 55 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 70 x 55 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title Wheat supply receipt
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Receipt listing deliveries of wheat.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1sw dnı͗.t 500 wp-s.t
2Ns-mt(r) 104⅙
3 sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗mn sw 84///
4dmḏ šp 10½
5dmḏ 94½ sw 1382/3
6sp sw 136⅓ wp-s.t
7pꜣ šp (n) ı͗p sw 45
8 sw 211
1Wheat, shares: 500. Specification:
2Espmetis [_]: 104⅙.
3..?.., son of Petamounis: Wheat 84⸢///⸣.
4Total received ..?..: 10½.
5Total: 94½. Wheat: 1382/3.
6Rest: Wheat: 136⅓. Specification:
7The credit advice: Wheat: 45.
8⸢..?.. ⸣ [_] Wheat: 211[///].
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
26655 man ..?.., son of Petamounis ..?.. sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗mn (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period -30 BCE 50 CE Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307589
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 307589 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1030), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.