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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5036

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5036
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Publication Status unpublished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 a2
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 complete
State of Preservation Upper left corner 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) End of the first lines broken off.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed centered onto the potsherd, with broad margins at all sides.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 41 0
Column Height (in mm) 67 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 41 x 67 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of priests on-duty
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content List of names of priests on-duty in the temple, presumably the Chnoum temple.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. rn
2Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ sꜣ Pa-Ḥp
3Pꜣ-ḥtr (sꜣ) Pꜣ-Mn
4Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ sꜣ Pa-
5
6Det.

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1List of [///]
2Pelaias, son of Paopis.
3Phatres, (son) of Phaminis.
4Pelaias, son of Pa⸢...?..⸣.
5[///]⸢..?..⸣
6[///]⸢..?..⸣Det.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
23655 man Pelaias, son of Paopis Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ sꜣ Pa-Ḥp pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) -332 BCE -222 BCE Dating by archaeological context.;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312203
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 312203 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5036), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.