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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
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 Pictures
convex
1nꜣ tꜣ ḥ.t n GN1Suggestion for the restauration of the gap made by S. Wångstedt.
2nꜣ šnꜥ.w 7
3nꜣ wꜥb.w 9
4Pꜣ-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.
5Pꜣ-ḏı͗-nfr-ḥtp ‘X’ qd 1.t
6Pꜣ-by-ꜥnḫ pꜣ šr n I͗wlw ‘X’ qd 1.t
7Pꜣ-šr-H̱nm ‘X’ qd 1.t
8 ‘X’ qd 1.t
9Pꜣ-šr-n-pꜣ-ḥm-nṯr-Ḥpy sꜣ Pꜣ-šlꜥl ‘X’ qd 1.t
10nꜣ ı͗my.w-wnw.t ‘X’ qd 1.t
11Pꜣ-šr-H̱nm ḫm pꜣ wꜥb ‘X’ qd 1.t
12Pꜣ-šr-Pa-H̱nm ꜥꜣ ‘X’ qd 1.t
13Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-ns-mtr sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp ‘X’ qd 1.t
14Ns-mtr ꜥꜣ pꜣ ı͗my-wnw.t ‘X’ qd 1.t
15Bı͗k ‘X’ qd 1.t
16I͗y-m-ḥtp pꜣ šr n Glꜥ ‘X’ qd 2.t
17Pꜣ-by-ꜥnḫ pꜣ šr Ḥb(?) ‘X’ qd 1.t
18Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-ns-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ- ‘X’ qd 1.t
19Wn-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
20Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Wn-nfr sꜣ Pa-H̱nm qd 1.t
21Pꜣ-šy ‘X’ qd 1.t
22Pꜣ-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
1The ..?.. (of) ˹the˺ [temple of GN]
2The bakers: 7
3The wab priests: 9
4Petosorsmetis, son of Pachnoumis, (precisely) his attorney : ‘OK’: 1 kite.
5Petenephotes: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
6Pabienchis, the son of Iulu: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
7Psenchnoumis [_]:‘OK’: 1 kite.
8..?.. [_]:‘OK’: 1 kite.
9Psenphomtis-Apis Pa-sher-en-pa-hem-netjer-Hapi, son of Pa-shelal: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
10The astronomers: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
11Psenchnoumis Junior, the wab priest: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
12Psenpachnoumis Senior: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
13Peteosorsmetis, son of Imouthes: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
14Espmetis Senior, the astronomer: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
15Bekis: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
16Imouthes, the son of Gla: ‘OK’: 2 kite.
17Pabienchis, the son of Heb(?):‘OK’: 1 kite.
18Peteosorsmetis, son of P..?..: ‘OK’: 1 kite.
19Onnophris Senior: ‘OK’: 2.t; share of Pasouchos: ‘OK’: 20 kite.
20Pachnoumis, son of Onnophris, son of Pachnoumis: 1 kite.
21Psais: ‘OK’ 1 kite.
22Psenpoeris, the son of Petanoukis: ‘OK’ 7 kite.
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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

 

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).