Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5034
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5034 |
| 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unpublished |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 part 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) |
Heavily faded. |
| Script, Primary |
Early Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Early Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Wide line pitch.
The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon.
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
5 |
3 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
49 |
49 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
57 |
30 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
49 x 57 |
49 x 30 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
account (?) |
| Ancient Archives |
administrative archive of unclear context |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content |
Only names are preserved from this heavily faded text, presumably an account. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | [///] ⸢..?..⸣ [///] |
2 | | ⸢..?..⸣ |
3 | | From Espmetis ⸢..?..⸣ |
4 | | ⸢..?..⸣ |
5 | | [///]⸢///⸣
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cc1 | | Oaphres ⸢..?..⸣[///] |
cc2 | | Es(p)metis(?) [///] |
cc3 | | Nepher[///]
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| Places (read out from edition) |
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People mentioned in Text
Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Nectanebo II |
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-359 BCE -341 BCE |
Dating by archaeological context.; |
Pictures
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Literature
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID |
312201 |
| 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 312201 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5034), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
