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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5031

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Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5031
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Publication Status	unpublished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	temple workshop H210 / building stratum a3
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	Upper and right parts 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)	Lower part and all line endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Early Demotic
Language, Primary	Early Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. the right-aligned text shows broad right and upper margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4+y	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	27	0
Column Height (in mm)	46	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	27+y x 46+y	0

 

Text Content

Modern Title	list of persons (priests on-duty or account)
Ancient Archives	administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary | account documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content	List of persons. Due to the fragmentary condition it remains unclear whether it mentions priests on duty or an account.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
23695	man	Chnenem[///]	⸢H̱nm⸣ [///]	pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Nectanebo II				-359 BCE -341 BCE	Dating by archaeological context.;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	312198
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 312198 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5031), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.