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Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 902

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 902
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Publication Status unpublished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 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) Lower part broken off in undetermined extent. Heavily faded.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text convers nearly the entire (preserved) surface of the potsherd, without rightand upper margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 100 0
Column Height (in mm) 38 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 100 x 38+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title ostracon with unknown content
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content Ostracon with currently unknown text. Mentin of Satet the Great, mistress of Elephantine.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
2Spd.t ꜥꜣ.t nb.t Yb
convex
2Satis, the Great, mistress of Elephantine
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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 307612
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 307612 (= Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 902), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.