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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 4969

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 4969
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Publication Status unpublished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 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 All sides broken off in undetermined extent.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Script, Primary Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Layout not detectable.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+4+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 0 0
Column Height (in mm) 0 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance [unknown] 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title ostracon with illegible text
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content Content unclear due to the heavily faded condition of the text:
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1-4
1-4[///] ⸢..?..⸣ [///]
45601Fb-2_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
3560 (unknown) (Unknown [lost]) (Unknown [lost]) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period - Ptolemaic dynasty -664 BCE -30 BCE Dating by palaeography. Dating by content. Dating by prosopography.;

 

Pictures

45601Fb-2_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312181
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 312181 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 4969), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.