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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 |
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 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. |
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 |
Modern Title | dedicatory inscription for Ptolemaios VI., Kleopatra II. and Ptolemaios Eupator |
Ancient Archives | none |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Places (read out from edition) |
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 |
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.; |
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. |