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Ostr. Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library 3166

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library 3166
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Publication Status	unpublished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	(unknown) Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Right 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)	All line beginnings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the potsherd, with broad margins on all sides.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7(+y)	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	82	0
Column Height (in mm)	60	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	82 x 60	0

 

Text Content

Modern Title	account of money payment
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 with money payment in stater and obols. Context unclear due to fragmentary condition .
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
37255	man	Petosorsmetis (Houghton 3166)	Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-Ns-mtr	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.;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	310993
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Jan Moje; Verena Lepper
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310993 (= Ostr. Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library 3166), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Verena Lepper.