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Pedest. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O F 205 + [unknown]

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Pedest. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O F 205 + [unknown]
Publication Number	Inscr.
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	The additionally greek fragments are not mentioned withtheir excavation number.
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

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	archaeological excavation Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	(not relevant) Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	(not relevant)
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 0 and 0
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty:

Object

Object Type	pedestal
Color	stone, red
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The left part is missing, as well as the lower right corner. The actual width is73 cm, the entire width was calculated by the editors.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The line beginnings of the four Greek lines are lost, as well as the endings of the last two Demotic lines.
Script, Primary	Greek
Script, additional A	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Language, additional A	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Greek text: currently not known (no photos known). Demotic text: Justified, wide line pitch.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	dedicatory inscription for Ptolemaios VI., Kleopatra II. and Ptolemaios Eupator
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	religious | polytheistic Egyptian | dedication
Summary of Content	Dedicatory inscription on a statue base from Pelaias, son of Bienchis, who has erected a group statue of Ptolemaios VI., Kleopatra II. and Ptolemaios Eupator. The Demotic and the Greek texts are parallel.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Parallel texts in Demotic and Greek.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	- Identifier of woman: "Female Pharaoh"
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)
Comment on Religion	Egyptian (Demotic) inscription concerning erection of a statue for the Ptolemaic ruler. Parallel text in Greek.
Religion, further	Syncretism

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8845	man	Pelaias, son of Bienchis	PꜢ-mr-ỉḥ sꜢ By-ꜥnḫ = Πελαιας Βιηγχιος	pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios VI Philometor				-152 February 3 BCE -152 August 31 BCE	Internal dating, with name of the ruler.;

 

Literature

• Junge, Friedrich, Elephantine XI. Funde und Bauteile 1.-7.Kampagne 1969-1976 (1987). (79)
• Maehler, Herwig & Thissen, Heinz Josef, Eine zweisprachige Weihinschrift aus Elephantine (2010). ()
• Moje, Jan, Herrscherfrauen im ptolemäischen Ägypten aus der Perspektive der privaten demotischen Quellen. (2013). (63)
• Vleeming, Sven P., Some Coins of Artaxerxes and Other Short Texts in the Demotic Script Found on Various Objects and Gathered from Many Publications (2001). (no. 100)

 

DatasetID	307632
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	53481
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307632 (= Pedest. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O F 205 + [unknown]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.