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Tablet Elephantine,excavation SwissInst 47704S/b-7

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Tablet Elephantine,excavation SwissInst 47704S/b-7
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	unpublished

Origin / Provenance

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

Object Type	tablet
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Complete.

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

Modern Title	list of priest on duty, reused as writing exercise
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary | list | name list
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)

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
36095	man	Chapokrates	ꜥnḫ-pꜣ-ẖrt	pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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);

 

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Literature

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.