Ostr. Paris, AIBL CIS Clermont-Ganneau no. E3
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Paris, AIBL CIS Clermont-Ganneau no. E3 |
| Publication Number |
Mémoires 35 no. E3 |
| Current Location |
Paris, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres |
| 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: |
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non |
between 28 1 1909 and |
| 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] |
| Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) |
Oxford, Manchester Collection
Certainty: |
Object
| Object Type |
ostracon |
| Range of Preservation |
complete |
| Mounting |
(unknown) |
| Comments on Object |
Mesurements and remarks from publication.
Crack.
"GA" written on the edge. |
Text Basic Information
| Localization of Text on Object |
recto/verso |
| Text-Localization, Addendum |
verso today erased. |
| Script, Primary |
Aramaic, Imperial |
| Script, additional A |
Early Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Aramaic, Imperial |
| Language, additional A |
Early Demotic |
| Comments on Handwriting |
Lozachmeur hand Ic. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
1 |
1 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
Wooden Label |
| Text Types |
- Documentary | Wooden Label
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| Summary of Content |
Aramaic name on side 1, Demotic comodity label on side 2. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text |
Parallels to the Aramaic / Demotic bilingual tag is found from the Excavations at Memphis:
W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie et al., Meydum and Memphis (III) (London : School of Archaeology in Egypt, University College : B. Quaritch, 1910), http://archive.org/details/meydummemphisiii00petr.
page 40-41 is the description of the excavation context and the objects, pl. xxxiv https://archive.org/details/meydummemphisiii00petr/page/n127/mode/2up
For a discussion of their function in the administration see
Henry P. Colburn, Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt, Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). pp. 50ff.
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| Multilingualism |
Bilingual |
| Gender |
Man |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | pꜣ ı͗rp ḥsb.t 30 qws(?) 1
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1 | | ⸢Belonging to⸣ Hošeˁa son of Qôn
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1 | | The wine of the 30th regnal year: 1 qus-measure.
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| Places (read out from edition) |
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 35555 |
man |
Hošeˁa son of Qôn |
הושע בר קונ |
Aramaic, Imperial |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) |
30 |
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-542 BCE -436 BCE |
Dating of the Demotic text.; |
Pictures
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Literature
| DatasetID |
313213 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Author |
James D. Moore; Jan Moje (Demotic) |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 313213 (= Ostr. Paris, AIBL CIS Clermont-Ganneau no. E3), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore; Jan Moje (Demotic). |
