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Ostr. München, SMÄK ÄS 885

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Metadata

Collection

Collection München, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst
Inventory Number Ostr. München, SMÄK ÄS 885
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Publication Status unpublished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]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution (unknown)
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1890 and 1910

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Upper part partly broken off.

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) First lines damaged.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed centered on the potsherd, with broad margins on all sides. The lower right crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 50 0
Column Height (in mm) 75 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 50 x x+75 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of priests on-duty
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content List of names of priests on-duty in the temple, presumably the Chnoum temple.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. 2Here a first line containing a headline or something else may have existed, but this remains unclear.
2
3
4Ns-Mn sꜣ
5Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp
6H̱nm-m-ḥꜣ.t(?) sꜣ Pa-sny
7Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-sny
8Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr sꜣ Pa-I͗y-m-ḥtp
9r s 7

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
2 Here a first line containing a headline or something else may have existed, but this remains unclear.
1[///]
2⸢..?..⸣[///]
3⸢..?..⸣[///]
4Esminis, son of ⸢.?..⸣[///]
5Espmetis, son of Imouthes.
6Chnoumemes(?),son of Pasenis.
7Pachnoumis, son of Pasenis.
8Peteyris, son of Paimouthes.
9Yields 7 men.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
26545 man Chnoumemes(?), son of Pasenis H̱nm-m-ḥꜣ.t?) sꜣ Pa-sny pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty -332 BCE -30 BCE Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

Muenchen_SMAEK_AS_0088
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 311029
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 311029 (= Ostr. München, SMÄK ÄS 885), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.