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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5061

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5061
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Publication Status unpublished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 Left 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) All line endings are broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Early Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic
Comments on Text Layout The text shows broad margins on the upper, lower, and right sides.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 1 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 33 0
Column Height (in mm) 18 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 33+y x 18 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title vow to a deity whose name is lost
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian
Summary of Content Vow, with the name of the deity broken off.
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
1Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. m-bꜣḥ DEITY n-ḏr.t NN

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Before [DEITY. By NN].
46702Vb-14_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
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) -664 BCE -332 BCE Dating by palaeography. Dating by content. Dating by prosopography.;

 

Pictures

46702Vb-14_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312216
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 312216 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5061), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.