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| Collection | Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4234 |
| Publication Number | ined. |
| Current Location | Elephantine, excavation magazine DAI |
| Publication Permission Status | permission for publication assigned |
| Publication Status | unpublished |
| Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
| Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Discovery | excavation or purchase Certainty: high |
| Finder (= First Purchaser) | Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt Certainty: high |
| 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 |
| Object Type | ostracon |
| Dating | between 98 and 117 |
| Criteria for Dating | prosopographic relation to published text from the time of Trajan |
| Range of Preservation | complete |
| State of Preservation | Complete |
| Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | Complete. | |
| Script, Primary | Greek | |
| Script, additional A | Late Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Greek, Ancient | |
| Language, additional A | Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | documentary, roman cursive, hand unknown (Greek) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The right- and left-aligned text was placed centered onto the potsherd, with broader margins on all sides. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 2+2 | 0 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 0 | |
| Column Height (in mm) | 0 | |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 0 | |
| Modern Title | Receipt of wheat |
| Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Taouerseous is confirmed of having received one artabe and 10 matia of wheat. Second text in Demotic contains the exact translation of the Greek text. |
| Relationship of Texts (bilingual) | Demotic text is the exact translation of the Greek text above |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Bilingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Woman |
| Comment on Gender | - Activity of woman: beneficiary of payment (wheat, connection to temple?) - Identifier of woman: none |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| Comment on Religion | on prosopographic grounds temple connection possible |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | |||||||||||||||||||||
1 Demotic transcription and translation by Jan Moje. 2 The lemma ṯꜣy was forgotten by the scribe ad added later below the line. 3 The name Taouerseus resp. Taorseus is attesteed often in Greek soures, but only two times in a Demotic text. One is the (late?) Roman Ostr. Berlin 12995 from Elephantine (Kaplony-Heckel, in AfP 49 (2003), 73 – 74 Nr. 12), the other the Roman Papyrus PSI 8 from Tebtynis (translation of the Demotic part by Spiegelberg p. 80-82). According to the Greek text, this was Taouerseus Senior (Ταουρσεους πρεσβ), but in Demotic only one group ꜥꜣ.t, which is used to indicated the Elder one, is written. This is because the Egyptian tried to avoid a dittography of ꜥꜣ.t. |
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 4304 | woman | Taorseus, daughter of Onnophris and her mother Tanese..?.. | Ταουερσηοῦς Ὀννώφρεως Τανεσε..?.. ; Ta-Wrše-ꜥꜣ | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Trajan | 98 CE 117 CE | prosopography suggests a date under Trajan; |
| DAIK 4234_S1_001 |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| DatasetID | 312729 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Author | Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic) |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 312729 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4234), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic). |
