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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
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 Pictures
convex
11Transcription 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
2ḥnꜥ tꜣy=s rmṯ.t hn 6½ tgm
3ı͗bd 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
1Senpachnoumis Junior,
2together with <her> female slave: 6½ hin castor oil seeds,
3(for) Mesore. Issued by Pelaias,
4son 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.;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

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).