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Ostr. München, SMÄK ÄS 864

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Metadata

Collection

Collection München, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst
Inventory Number Ostr. München, SMÄK ÄS 864
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Publication Status unpublished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]
Finder (= First Purchaser) Mook, Friedrich
Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
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 1890 and 1910
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Mook, Friedrich
Certainty:

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Upper and lower 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 and lower parts broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon, without lateral margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+ 8 +y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 60 0
Column Height (in mm) 50 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 60 x x+50+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account of delivery of oil and flower bouquets
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Account of delivery of oil and flower bouquets, possibly for cultic practices, due to the high amounts of money mentioned
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x+1 1Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ḥḏ dbn ///
x+2 bq ḥḏ dbn 10
x+3 nḥḥ hn 2¼ ḥḏ dbn 40
x+4 ꜥnḫ nty hḏ ḥḏ dbn 60
x+5 sw 14 bq(?) r hn(?) ½ ḥḏ dbn 9 ḥḏ qd 5(?)
x+6 r nḥḥ ḥḏ dbn 9 ḥḏ qd 5
x+7 ḥḏ dbn 300 ḥḏ qd 5
x+8

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
x+1 [///] ⸢..?..⸣ [_] ⸢///⸣ silver deben.
x+2 ..?.. olive oil [_]: 10 silver deben.
x+3 2¼ hin of oil [_] 40 deben.
x+4 Guilded flower bouqets [_] 60 deben
x+5 14th day: ..?.. olive oil yields ½ hin [_]: 9 silver deben, 5(=) silver kite.
x+6 [///]⸢..?..⸣ of oil [_]: 9 silver deben, 5 silver kite.
x+7 [///] [_]: 300 silver deben, 5 silver kite.
x+8 [///] [_] ⸢..?..⸣
Muenchen_SMAEK_AS_0086
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Muenchen_SMAEK_AS_0086
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AS_00864_S2_002
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Places (read out from edition)

 

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
Ptolemaic dynasty -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

Muenchen_SMAEK_AS_0086
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Muenchen_SMAEK_AS_0086
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AS_00864_S2_002
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 311025
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 311025 (= Ostr. München, SMÄK ÄS 864), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.