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Ostr. London, BM EA 133028

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 133028
Publication Number TAD D.7.15

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]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution (other)
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1962 and 1962
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) British Library
Certainty:

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating of Object 5th century BCE (circa)
Dating between -500 and -400
Range of Preservation (undecidable)
State of Preservation Fair; badly rubbed and incomplete
Mounting (unknown)

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave/convex (inside/outside)
Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Text Layout Six lines outside, eight lines inside.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6 7
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragmentary Missive. Re: Boat and Decree
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: low)
Multilingualism Monolingual
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
TAD (variants)
cc. 01. ‮ על⸢ד⸣ב⸢ר⸣ [...]
cc. 02. ‮ יבנון לי אף
cc. 03. ‮ על מ⸢רי⸣ אלפא
cc. 04. ‮ {טד |טר} ⸢מ⸣◦◦ {ש|ס}{ד|ר|ו}{כ|נ}
cc. 05. ‮ ויעבד ל[י ]⸢א⸣[...]
cc. 06. ‮ ויתעב[ד ...]
cc. 07. ‮ ה[...]
cv. 01. ‮ [...] אחיו[ ...]
cv. 02. ‮ [...]ל אנת [...]
cv. 03. ‮ [... יד]ניה ומל[כיה ...]
cv. 04. ‮ [...]◦{ד|ר|ו} הא טעמ{י|א}[ ...]
cv. 05. ‮ על עלוה ויחו{ו|כ|נ} [...]
cv. 06. ‮ לא אכל אעל {ס|ב|כ}[...]
CC
1עלדבר
2יבנונ לי אפ
3על מחר אלפא
4...
5ויעבד ל...
6ויתעבד[ ...]
7ה
CV
1 אחיו
2ל אנת
3ניה ומל
4◦◦ הא טעמי
5על עלוה ויחוונ
6לא אכל אעל ◦
CC
1on ⸢account of⸣ [...]
2They should build for me. Moreover,
3⸢en⸣ter to[morrow] the boat.
4...
5and he shall make ⸢for⸣ ...[...]
6And it shall be do⸢n⸣[e ...]
7H[...]
CV
1[...] ˀAḥyô[ ...]
2[...]L you (m.s.) [...]
3[... PN-]nyah and ML[...]
4[...]◦◦ Look! The decrees of/my decree [...]
5⸢en⸣ter to him and they ⸢should⸣ show [...]
6I cannot enter ◦[...]
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
42505 man ˀAḥyô אחיו Aramaic, Imperial

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
-525 BCE -399 BCE ;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307758
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 90998
Author James D. Moore
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307758 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 133028), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.