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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Cairo EM TR 18953/125/1/55-4 no. 1

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. Cairo EM TR 18953/125/1/55-4 no. 1
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
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: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	(unknown) Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Lower part broken off in undetermined extent.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Lower part broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered on the potsherd, with broad margins on all sides.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8(+y?)	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	32	0
Column Height (in mm)	58	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	32 x 58	0

Text Content

Modern Title	list of priests on-duty
Ancient Archives	administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| list \| name list
Summary of Content	List of names of priests on-duty in the temple, presumably the Chnoum temple.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman Child
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: unclear context (name in a list) - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1
2	Pa-Ḥr sꜣ Pa-mtr
3	Pꜣ-šr-pꜣ-wr sꜣ Pa-Ḥr
4	Qlꜥṯ
5	Ta-Ḥr ta Pa-sny
6	Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t sꜣ Nḫ.t-Wsı͗r
7	Ns-pꜣ-mtr ꜣ Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t
8	ꜥn Pa-Ḥr sꜣ Pa-mtr

1	..?..(ed. t.b.c.)
2	Payris, son of Pametis.
3	Psenpoeris, son of Payris.
4	Kelati.
5	Tayris, daughter of Pasenis.
6	Harpaesis, son of Nechtosiris.
7	Espmetis, son of Harpaesis.
8	Again: Payris, son of Pametis.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
29500	man	Espmetis, son of Harpaesis (Cairo 55-4-1)	Ns-pꜣ-mtr ꜣ Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early)				-332 BCE -222 BCE	Dating by palaeography;

Literature

Wahid el-Din, Soheir Mohamed, Demotic Lists of Personal Names (Three Ostraca from Egyptian Museum at Cairo) (2009). (p. 493-494 no. 1.)

DatasetID	308408
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	412080
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 308408 (= Ostr. Cairo EM TR 18953/125/1/55-4 no. 1), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography).