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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5062

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5062
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Publication Status unpublished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 campaign 44 - 46
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 Both lateral parts are 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) Line beginnings and endings are broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Early Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic
Comments on Text Layout One line only.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 1 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 74 0
Column Height (in mm) 12 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+74+y x 12 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title vow to Chnoum
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 in front of the epithet " great god, lord of Elephantine", which clearly points to Chnoum. The name of the person seems to start with an Pa.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. m-bꜣḥ H̱nm pꜣ nṯr nb Yb n-ḏrt Pa

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1[Before Chnoum, the] great god, lord of Elephantine. By Pa[///]
46702Vb-15_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)
  • Yb (places.xml#s3)
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    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
    Nectanebo II -359 BCE -341 BCE Dating by palaeography. Dating by content. Dating by prosopography.;

     

    Pictures

    46702Vb-15_S1_001
    Reserved Copyright

     

    Literature

    previousely unpublished

     

    DatasetID 312217
    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 312217 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5062), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.