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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5054

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5054
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Publication Status unpublished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 lower parts broken off in undetermined extent.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex/concave (outside/inside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Upper and lower part as well as all line endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Early Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. Layout undetectable due to the fragmentary condition.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2 3
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 23 x+15
Column Height (in mm) 25 15
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 23+y x x+25+y x+15 x 15

 

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 (persons connected with numbers) of which most parts are lost. One line was presumably wiped out.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. 6
2

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
concave
cc1///
cc2n-ḏr.t Ḥr-
cc3
1[///] ..?..: 6
2[///]⸢..?..⸣
cc1[[///]]
cc2From Hor[///]
cc3[///]⸢..?..⸣[///]
46702Ga-4_S1_001
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46702Ga-4_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
27910 man Hor[///] Ḥr-[///] 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.;

 

Pictures

46702Ga-4_S1_001
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46702Ga-4_S2_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312211
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 312211 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5054), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.