Ostr. Uppsala, Gustavianum VM 701+610 (+ Oxford, Ashmolean Museum D. O. A-24)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Uppsala, Gustavianum VM 701+610 (+ Oxford, Ashmolean Museum D. O. A-24)
Current Location	magazine
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	(unknown) Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	(unknown) Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	(unknown)
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(unknown) Certainty:

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Broken into three pieces, with small parts lost. the upper left part is still missing
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Some signs are faded. The end of the first line is possibly lost.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Language, additional A	(none)
Comments on Text Layout	Wide and steady line pitch. The text is placed onto the right vertical half of the surface of the potsherd. All lines beginn very close to the right rim, while the left part has a ragged margin. At the bottom a small strip remains uninscribed, as well as the left part of the potsherd.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	22	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	112	0
Column Height (in mm)	180	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	112 x 180	0

Text Content

Modern Title	account of priests connected with their income
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| account
Summary of Content	List of names with professions, presumably belonging to the Chnoum temple staff, with account of their income(?)
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	nꜣ tꜣ ḥ.t n GN¹Suggestion for the restauration of the gap made by S. Wångstedt.
2	nꜣ šnꜥ.w 7
3	nꜣ wꜥb.w 9
4	Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-ns-mtr sꜣ Pa-H̱nm pꜣy=f rd ²Suggestion Jan Moje. In his edition, S. Wångstedt assumed tentative „his income(?)“. ‘X’ qd 1.t ³Suggestion of the readinsg of all theses signs Jan Moje.
5	Pꜣ-ḏı͗-nfr-ḥtp ‘X’ qd 1.t
6	Pꜣ-by-ꜥnḫ pꜣ šr n I͗wlw ‘X’ qd 1.t
7	Pꜣ-šr-H̱nm ‘X’ qd 1.t
8	‘X’ qd 1.t
9	Pꜣ-šr-n-pꜣ-ḥm-nṯr-Ḥpy sꜣ Pꜣ-šlꜥl ‘X’ qd 1.t
10	nꜣ ı͗my.w-wnw.t ‘X’ qd 1.t
11	Pꜣ-šr-H̱nm ḫm pꜣ wꜥb ‘X’ qd 1.t
12	Pꜣ-šr-Pa-H̱nm ꜥꜣ ‘X’ qd 1.t
13	Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-ns-mtr sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp ‘X’ qd 1.t
14	Ns-mtr ꜥꜣ pꜣ ı͗my-wnw.t ‘X’ qd 1.t
15	Bı͗k ‘X’ qd 1.t
16	I͗y-m-ḥtp pꜣ šr n Glꜥ ‘X’ qd 2.t
17	Pꜣ-by-ꜥnḫ pꜣ šr Ḥb(?) ‘X’ qd 1.t
18	Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-ns-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ- ‘X’ qd 1.t
19	Wn-nfr ꜥꜣ ‘X’ 2.t dnı͗.t ⁴Translation of the passage following ꜥꜣ: Suggestion J.Moje. Not read by Wångstedt. n Pa-Sbk ‘X’ qd 20.t
20	Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Wn-nfr sꜣ Pa-H̱nm qd 1.t
21	Pꜣ-šy ‘X’ qd 1.t
22	Pꜣ-šr-n-pꜣ-wr pꜣ šr n Pꜣ-ḏı͗-ꜥnq.t ‘X’ qd 7.t

¹ Suggestion for the restauration of the gap made by S. Wångstedt.
² Suggestion Jan Moje. In his edition, S. Wångstedt assumed tentative „his income(?)“.
³ Suggestion of the readinsg of all theses signs Jan Moje.
⁴ Translation of the passage following ꜥꜣ: Suggestion J.Moje. Not read by Wångstedt.

convex

1	The ..?.. (of) ˹the˺ [temple of GN]
2	The bakers: 7
3	The wab priests: 9
4	Petosorsmetis, son of Pachnoumis, (precisely) his attorney : ‘OK’: 1 kite.
5	Petenephotes: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
6	Pabienchis, the son of Iulu: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
7	Psenchnoumis [_]:‘OK’: 1 kite.
8	..?.. [_]:‘OK’: 1 kite.
9	Psenphomtis-Apis Pa-sher-en-pa-hem-netjer-Hapi, son of Pa-shelal: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
10	The astronomers: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
11	Psenchnoumis Junior, the wab priest: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
12	Psenpachnoumis Senior: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
13	Peteosorsmetis, son of Imouthes: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
14	Espmetis Senior, the astronomer: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
15	Bekis: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
16	Imouthes, the son of Gla: ‘OK’: 2 kite.
17	Pabienchis, the son of Heb(?):‘OK’: 1 kite.
18	Peteosorsmetis, son of P..?..: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
19	Onnophris Senior: ‘OK’: 2.t; share of Pasouchos: ‘OK’: 20 kite.
20	Pachnoumis, son of Onnophris, son of Pachnoumis: 1 kite.
21	Psais: ‘OK’ 1 kite.
22	Psenpoeris, the son of Petanoukis: ‘OK’ 7 kite.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
9000	man	Bekis	Bỉk	pre-Coptic Egyptian

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

Wångstedt, Sten Valter, Ein demotisches Ostrakon aus Elephantine. (483-484)

DatasetID	307647
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	131661
Author	Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307647 (= Ostr. Uppsala, Gustavianum VM 701+610 (+ Oxford, Ashmolean Museum D. O. A-24)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography).