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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1034

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1034
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Publication Status unpublished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 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) Lower part and all line endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Very wide line pitch. The text convers nearly the entire (preserved) surface of the potsherd, following the right outline of writable surface.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 35 0
Column Height (in mm) 70 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 35+y x 70+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title List of names / account
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content List of male names. Due to the broken off line endings, it remains unclear weather this was a list of priests on duty or an account.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1 OK [///]
2 OK Pa⸢..?..⸣[///]
3 ..?. [///]
4 OK Dj..?..[///]
5 OK Pachnoumis, son of ⸢..?..⸣[///]
6 OK Espmetis(?), son of [///]
7 OK Py..?..[///]
8 Pete..?.., (son) of Petechnoumis [///]
9 ⸢..?..⸣[///]
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
35995 man Dj..?..[///] Ḏ..?..[///] (not identified)

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307592
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 307592 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1034), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.