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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1196

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1196
Current Location	magazine Assuan
Publication Status	partly 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	archaeological excavation Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Left part broken off in undetermined extent.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. The text shows a broad lower margin.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+5	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	18	0
Column Height (in mm)	14	0
Height of Line / Letter	5	0
Line Distance	x+18 x x+14	0

 

Text Content

Modern Title	account of money payment
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [lost])
Text Types	documentary | account
Summary of Content	Account on payments of money in stater and obols. Content unclear due to fragmentary condition
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

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)

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Roman Period				-30 BCE 211 CE	Dating by palaeography.;

 

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Literature

• Wagner, Guy, Les Papyrus et les Ostraca grecs d'Éléphantine (P. et O. Eleph. DAIK). (no. 245 (wrong number))

 

DatasetID	308856
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	34308
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;245
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308856 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1196), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.