Ostr. Uppsala, Gustavianum VM 638

Inventory Number	Ostr. Uppsala, Gustavianum VM 638
Current Location	magazine
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	(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:

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Very faded, hadly legible. Parts of the texs are erased.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	(none)
Comments on Text Layout	Narrow line pitch. The text was written above the depiction of a soldier.
Existing Pictorial Elements	Soldier walking leftwards, with a stick in the right hand, the upper part in the shape of a was sceptre. The left hand holds bow and arrow, on the head, he wears a helmet probably with two feathers.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)		0
Column Height (in mm)		0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance		0

Modern Title	unclear content
Ancient Archives	unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary
Summary of Content	Probably description of the accompanying depiction of a soldier. Readable are only the words "Nubian" and "merchandising". Wangstedt considers this depiction as a soldier belonging to a trade expedition southwards.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	_x001C_
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Ethnicity / Multiculturalism	Egyptian / Nubian
Gender	Man

Transcription

Translation

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1	ı͗r šw ¹In the edition, erroneously ı͗r šm was written.
2	nḥsy
3

¹ In the edition, erroneously ı͗r šm was written.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8060	not applicable	(No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text)	(No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text)	(none)

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty				-332 BCE -30 BCE	Dating by palaeography.;

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DatasetID	307660
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	51770
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307660 (= Ostr. Uppsala, Gustavianum VM 638), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.