Ostr. Cairo EM TR TR 18953/125/1/55-4 no. 2

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. Cairo EM TR TR 18953/125/1/55-4 no. 2
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:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	(unknown) Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Complete.

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)	Complete.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed near the left edge of the potsherd, with broad upper and lower margins. The lower left crotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	80	0
Column Height (in mm)	80	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	80 x 80	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

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	Pꜣ-šr-pꜣ-wr sꜣ
2	Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pꜣ-ꜥẖm
3	Pꜣy- ¹The editor read Pꜣy-Ḥr. (sꜣ) Pꜣ-šr-ꜣs.t
4	Pa-H̱nm pꜣ ḫm sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Pꜣ-Mnṱ ²The editor read Pa-H̱nm-gnm sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Pꜣ-Mnṱ. The published photo and facsimile are not clear for the grandfather.
5	Pa-by ³The editor read Pa-bny. sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Nfr-ḥtp
6	~~///~~
7	Wrš sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-pꜣ-wr

¹ The editor read Pꜣy-Ḥr.
² The editor read Pa-H̱nm-gnm sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Pꜣ-Mnṱ. The published photo and facsimile are not clear for the grandfather.
³ The editor read Pa-bny.

1	Psenpoeris, son of ⸢..?..⸣.
2	Pachnoumis, son of Pachomis.
3	Pi⸢..?..⸣, (son) of Psennesis.
4	Pachnoumis Junior, son of Imouthes, son of Pamonthes.
5	Pabis, son of Petenephotes.
6	[[///]]
7	Orseus, son of Psenpoeris.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
29530	man	Orseus, son of Psenpoeris (Cairo 55-4-2)	Wrš sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-pꜣ-wr	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;

Literature

Wahid el-Din, Soheir Mohamed, Demotic Lists of Personal Names (Three Ostraca from Egyptian Museum at Cairo) (2009). (p. 494-495, no. 2.)

DatasetID	308409
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	412081
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 308409 (= Ostr. Cairo EM TR TR 18953/125/1/55-4 no. 2), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography).