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Ostr. Aswan, Excavation Edel 30a/104

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Aswan, Excavation Edel
Inventory Number Ostr. Aswan, Excavation Edel 30a/104
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details Qubbet el-Hawa, tomb QH 30a
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Edel, Elmar
Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Aswan / Syene
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Complete.
Script, Primary Early Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper half of the potsherd.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 55
Column Height (in mm) 40
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 55 x 40 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title Name of woman with filiation
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | names
Summary of Content Name of Tanofretiyti, daughter of Petamounis and her mother Ithoros.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Woman Man
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: unclear context - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man and of her mother
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1s.t-ḥm.t Tꜣ-nfr.t-jy.
2 .ṱ sꜣ.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗mn mw.t=s
3I͗r.t=w-r.r=w
convex
1Tanofretitiyti,
2daughter of Petamounis and her mother
3Ithoros.
O_QeH_30a-104_Faks_Ede
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
11960 man Tanofretiyti, daughter of Petamounis and her mother Ithoros. Tꜣ-nfr.t-jyṱ. sꜣ.t Pꜣ-ḏı-Imn mw.t=s Ir.t=w-r.r=w pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late Period -664 BCE -332 BCE Dating by palaeography;

 

Pictures

O_QeH_30a-104_Faks_Ede
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Literature

 

DatasetID 311116
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 311116 (= Ostr. Aswan, Excavation Edel 30a/104), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography).