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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5084

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5084
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Publication Status unpublished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 a1
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 to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout One line only.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 1 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 63 0
Column Height (in mm) 12 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+63+y x 12 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for money paying
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content A person whose name is lost is confirmed of having paid 3 kite(?) and 6 obols. Mention of a certain Espmetis in unclear context.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 ḥḏ qd(?) 3 ḏbꜥ.t 6 Ns-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ-///
1[///] 3 silver kite(?) and 6 obols. Espmetis, son of Pa⸢///⸣ [///]
46703Kd-7_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
27915 man Espmetis, son of Pa⸢///⸣ [///] Ns-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ-⸢///⸣ [///] 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

46703Kd-7_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312219
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 312219 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5084), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.