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Ostr. Cairo EM TR TR 18953/125/1/55-4 no. 3

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. Cairo EM TR TR 18953/125/1/55-4 no. 3
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 Upper and left parts 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) Upper partand some line endings broken off in undetermined extent.
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. The last two lines were separated from the main text.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+5 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 42 0
Column Height (in mm) 50 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 42+y x x+50 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of persons connected with deliveries or income
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content List of persons connected with deliveries or income. Only at the end a total is given.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
x+1 Paesis, son of Pasenis.
x+2 Petenephotes, son of Ouser[///].
x+3 Petosorsmetis, son of Bi[enchis].
x+4 Pamonthes, son of Panas.
x+5 Yields 35 ½ silver (deben).
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
29535 man Paesis, son of Pasenis (Cairo 55-4-3) Pa-ꜣs.t sꜣ Pa-sny 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

 

DatasetID 308410
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 412082
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 308410 (= Ostr. Cairo EM TR TR 18953/125/1/55-4 no. 3), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography).