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Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 797

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 797
Current Location magazine
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Publication Status unpublished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 Lower and left 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) Lower and left parts 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 surface of the (preserved) ostracon. All line beginnings are oriented to the outline shape of the right rim.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 14+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 63 0
Column Height (in mm) 105 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 63+y x 105+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of persons delivered or received money
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list
Summary of Content List of persons connected with deliveries or income.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1
2H̱nm ꜥꜣ
3Ḥkny
4Wn-nfr 1This is written in the short form W-nfr, cf. Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 118, esp. nos 41, 43, 47-51.
5Wn-nfr 2This is written in the short form W-nfr, cf. Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 118, esp. nos 41, 43, 47-51.
6r sttr 24
7ı͗r r-bnr r 3For this phrase cf. ERICHSEN, Demotisches Glossar (1954), 118.
8Pꜣ-nfy 4This name is not mentioned in Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000). sttr 5
9Pꜣ-nfy sttr 1.t ḥḏ qd 1
10Pꜣ-ꜣḥs 5This name is not mentioned in Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000). sttr 1.t
11Qlḥysyns 6This names of presumably Greek origin are not attested in Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000). sttr
12Qrnr 7This names of presumably Greek origin are not attested in Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000).
13ꜣgny 8This name is not attested in Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), so the suggestion of the identification of the Greek name Agenis/Agenios (Ἄγενις) remains uncertain.
14Ṯꜣy-

1 This is written in the short form W-nfr, cf. Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 118, esp. nos 41, 43, 47-51.
2 This is written in the short form W-nfr, cf. Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 118, esp. nos 41, 43, 47-51.
3 For this phrase cf. ERICHSEN, Demotisches Glossar (1954), 118.
4 This name is not mentioned in Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000).
5 This name is not mentioned in Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000).
6 This names of presumably Greek origin are not attested in Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000).
7 This names of presumably Greek origin are not attested in Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000).
8 This name is not attested in Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), so the suggestion of the identification of the Greek name Agenis/Agenios (Ἄγενις) remains uncertain.
1..?..[///].
2Chnoumis Senior [///].
3Hekeny(?) [///].
4Onnophris [///].
5Onnophris ⸢..?..⸣ [///].
6Yields 24 stater ⸢..?..⸣ [///].
7Thus was missed out (?) ..?.. [///]
8Pnefis [_]: 5 stater.
9Panefy [_]: 1 stater, 1 kire.
10Paahes [_]: 1 stater.
11Qelhisines [_]: ⸢..?..⸣ stater.
12Kroner [_]: [///].
13Agenis(?) [_]: [///] .
14Tjai-⸢..?..⸣ [///].
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
23400 man Agenis(?) ꜣgny (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.;

 

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307597
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 307597 (= Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 797), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.