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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5106

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5106
Current Location	Elephantine, excavation magazine SwissInst
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Publication Status	unpublished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	surface, without context
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

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Upper and lower parts broken off.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Upper and lower parts broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide and unsteady line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small lateral margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+7+y	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	42	0
Column Height (in mm)	21	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	42 x x+21+y	0

 

Text Content

Modern Title	writing exercise: numbers
Ancient Archives	unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	scientific | writing exercise
Summary of Content	writing exercise with several numerals.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8060	not applicable	(No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text)	(No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text)	(none)

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Roman Period				-30 BCE 211 CE	;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	315459
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 315459 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5106), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.