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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 4970

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 4970
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Publication Status unpublished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 Lower and left parts broken off in undetermined extent.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Layout not detectable.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 24 0
Column Height (in mm) 20 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 24+y x 20+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account (?)
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Possibly account of which most parts are lost.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x+1 1Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. sp=w 5
x+2

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
x+1 Their rest: 5 ⸢..?..⸣ [///]
x+2 [///]⸢..?..⸣
45601Gc-1_S1_001
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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
Ptolemaic dynasty -332 BCE -30 BCE Dating by palaeography. Dating by content. Dating by prosopography.;

 

Pictures

45601Gc-1_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312182
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 312182 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 4970), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.