Ostr. Uppsala, Gustavianum VM 831
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Uppsala, Gustavianum VM 831 |
| 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: |
| 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 |
| Color |
pottery, light red |
| Range of Preservation |
complete |
| State of Preservation |
Complete. |
| Mounting |
(non [ostracon]) |
| Comments on Object |
HxW 105 x 108 according to Wångstedt. |
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. |
| Script, Primary |
Late Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Roman Demotic |
| Language, additional A |
(none) |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Wide line pitch.
The right-aligned text with ragged left margin covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd. Only the small lower right crotch remains uninscribed. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
8 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
93 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
97 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
93 x 97 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
list of priests on-duty |
| Ancient Archives |
Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | list | name list
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| Summary of Content |
Excerpt from a (papyrus?) list of male priests on duty in a 10th regnal year. The responsible two priests change every two month. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Ethnicity / Multiculturalism |
Egyptian |
| Gender |
Man |
| Religion |
Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | The second scroll naming the wab priests of the 10th regnal year. |
2 | | 1st of Pharmouthi: |
3 | | Petosorsmetis, the son of the wab. |
4 | | Pachnoumis, son of Espmetis. |
5 | | 1st of Payni: Psais Senior, son of Pachnoumis. |
6 | | Pachnoumis, son of Petenephotes, son of Psais. |
7 | | 1st of Mesore: Pachnoumis, son of Petenephotes |
8 | | Senior.
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People mentioned in Text
Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Roman Period |
10 |
Pharmuthi |
01 |
-30 BCE 211 CE |
Dating by palaeography.; |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
307656 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
50743 |
| Author |
Jan Moje |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 307656 (= Ostr. Uppsala, Gustavianum VM 831), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
