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Inventory Number | Tablet Elephantine,excavation SwissInst 47704S/b-7 |
Current Location | magazine |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication upon enquiry only |
Publication Status | unpublished |
Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
Ancient Provenance Details | temple workshop H210 / building stratum c (prior to beginning of temple building) |
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 | Elephantine |
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | excavation finds |
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 2018 and 2018 |
Object Type | tablet |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
Localization of Text on Object | one-sided | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Some signs faded, some line beginnings broken off. | |
Script, Primary | Early Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Early Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide but irregular line pitch. The columns cover neearly the entire surface of the object. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 29 + 24 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 2 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 0 | |
Column Height (in mm) | 0 | |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 0 |
Modern Title | list of priest on duty, reused as writing exercise |
Ancient Archives | none |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | List of priests on duty, sorted in groups of 10 or 4 men, changing every month. Later, the tablet was used as board for writing exercises. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
36095 | man | Chapokrates | ꜥnḫ-pꜣ-ẖrt | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) | -664 BCE -359 BCE | Terminus post quem non for both texts: Nectanebos II./beginn of temple building activities (information due to Cornelius von Pilgrim); |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 312588 |
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 312588 (= Tablet Elephantine,excavation SwissInst 47704S/b-7), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |