Ostr. London, BM EA 12090

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	London, British Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. London, BM EA 12090
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	unpublished

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	purchase Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Chester, Greville John Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	unknown
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	purchase
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 9 11 1878 and 9 11 1878
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Chester, Greville John Certainty:

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating of Object	Graeco-Roman
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 part and 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 covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon, and was oriented along the right rim.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+9	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	100	0
Column Height (in mm)	72	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	100 x 72	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	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| account
Summary of Content	List of persons connected with deliveries or income of money payment.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: beneficiary / deliverer of payment - Identifier of woman: none

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

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x+1	Ta-
x+2	ḥḏ dbn ⅙ ḥḏ qd 6
x+3	Wbwḥṱns Gplyw ḥḏ dbn ⅙
x+4	r nꜣ sp.w(?) ḥḏ ḏbn ⅙ ḥḏ qd 11
x+5	-ṱnfj( .t) ¹This name of which the first part is not clear appears also on Ostr. Oxf Asm DO 797. It is also not clear if the unread parts at the end of both versions belong to this name or not. (sꜣ?) Swtr ḥḏ dbn ⅙
x+6	Tꜣ-nfr-šy ḥḏ dbn
x+7	~~///~~ Prgtwr sttr 5.t
x+8	Tꜣ-ꜥlw.t sttr ⸢8⸣
x+9	Ta- sttr

¹ This name of which the first part is not clear appears also on Ostr. Oxf Asm DO 797. It is also not clear if the unread parts at the end of both versions belong to this name or not.

x+1	Ta-⸢..?..⸣[///]
x+2	⅙ silver deben, 6 silver kite.
x+3	Wbwḥṱns, (son) of Kephalas: ⅙ silver deben.
x+4	Yields the rests(?): ⅙ silver deben and 11 silver kite.
x+5	..?..tjenfy ..?.., (son?) of Soter: ⅙ silver deben.
x+6	Tnephersois ..?.. : ⸢..?..⸣ silver deben.
x+7	[[///]] Praktor: [_] 5 stater.
x+8	Talous: [_] 8 stater.
x+9	Ta-..?..: [///] stater.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
28325	man	..?.., (son?) of Soter	..?.. (sꜣ?) Swtr	(not identified)

Dates

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

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Literature

Lüddeckens, Erich, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979). (913 sub Swtr no. 7)

DatasetID	310460
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	55792
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310460 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12090), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.