Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 279

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 279
Publication Number	Mémoires 35 no. 279
Current Location	Paris, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty:
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Clermont-Ganneau, Charles Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Upper right part broken off.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])
Comments on Object	Palimpsest or erasure. Mesurements and remarks from publication. Lozachmeur: cv: 5YR5/4 ; cc: 5YR6/4 darkened.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Text-Localization, Addendum	cv parallel.
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Beginning of first line broken off. Partly faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon, with a broad upper margin and very small lateral margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	42	0
Column Height (in mm)	35	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	42 x 35	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for castor oil
Ancient Archives	unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Pelaias, son of Psenpoeris
Text Types	documentary \| receipt
Summary of Content	Senpachnoumis and her female slave are confirmed by Pelaias, son of Psenpoeris, of having brought 6,5 hin castor oil seed for Mesore. Date lost.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Woman Man
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: deliverer of items - Identifier of woman: slave of a woman

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	¹Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. In the edition, the text was interpreted as Aramaic: HL: 1. [...]◦ש◦◦◦◦◦ת 2. ננ◦◦◦ סשנלבש 3. ברל ... חא 4. על ...[...] Tꜣ-šr.t-Pa-H̱nm tꜣ ḫm.t
2	ḥnꜥ tꜣy=s rmṯ.t hn 6½ tgm
3	ı͗bd 4 šmw n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ
4	(sꜣ) Pꜣ-šr-pꜣ-wr ḥsb.t

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. In the edition, the text was interpreted as Aramaic: HL: 1. [...]◦ש◦◦◦◦◦ת 2. ננ◦◦◦ סשנלבש 3. ברל ... חא 4. על ...[...]

convex

1	Senpachnoumis Junior,
2	together with &lt;her> female slave: 6½ hin castor oil seeds,
3	(for) Mesore. Issued by Pelaias,
4	son of Psenpoeris. [Date]

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
30470	woman	Senpachnoumis Junior	Tꜣ-šr.t-Pꜣ-Hnm tꜣ ẖm.t	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes		Mesore		-246 BCE -222 BCE	Dating by palaeography. Dating by content. Dating by prosopography.;

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Literature

Lozachmeur, Hélène, La collection Clermont-Ganneau : ostraca, épigraphes sur jarre étiquettes de bois (2006). (no. 279, pl. 281.)

DatasetID	313163
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); Emil Joubert (help with metadata)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 313163 (= Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 279), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Emil Joubert (help with metadata).