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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5045

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5045
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Publication Status unpublished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 Chnoum temple, southern side
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 All sides broken off in undetermined extent.

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) All line beginnings and endings are lost.
Script, Primary Early Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. Layout undetectable due to the fragmentary condition.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 35 0
Column Height (in mm) 30 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+35+y x x+30+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Mention of different amounts of money. Main part of the text lost.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
x+1 1Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ḥḏ dbn(?) 6 ḥḏ qd 2 ¼
x+2 ḏbꜥ.t 10
x+3
x+4

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
46701Xl-5_O5045_01_S1_
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
3560 (unknown) (Unknown [lost]) (Unknown [lost]) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) -664 BCE -332 BCE ;

 

Pictures

46701Xl-5_O5045_01_S1_
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315466
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 315466 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5045), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).