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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1356

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1356
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Publication Status unpublished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 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) Line endings broken off in undetermined extent. Text partly faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Very wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with broad upper and lower margins. The lower right crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 130 0
Column Height (in mm) 14 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 130+y x 14 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title ostracon with unclear content
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content Text with unclear content.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1
2///
1⸢..?..⸣ [///]
2⸢///⸣ [///]
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.1
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.1
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
5 (unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown) German

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.1
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.1
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307596
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 307596 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1356), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.