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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 4953

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 4953
Current Location	Elephantine, excavation magazine SwissInst
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details	campaign 44 - 46
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Pilgrim, Cornelius von (excavation director) Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Aswan / Syene
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	excavation finds

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Both lateral parts are 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 and endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Early Demotic
Language, Primary	Early Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon.
Existing Pictorial Elements	Horus falcon
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	70	0
Column Height (in mm)	78	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	x+70+y x 78	0

 

Text Content

Modern Title	drawing of a falcon with non-identifiable text
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary
Summary of Content	Drawing of a Horus falcon. The name of the deity is mentioned in the following line. Due to the fact that both lines are (partially) overwritten with another line a clear interpretation is difficult.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language

 

Text

 

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
Nectanebo II				-359 BCE -341 BCE	Dating by palaeography. Dating by content. Dating by prosopography.;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	312178
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 312178 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 4953), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.