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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5113

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5113
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Publication Status unpublished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 Left and right parts are broken off in undetermined extent
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
Script, Primary Early Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Layout undetectable due to the fragmentary condition.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 1 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 55 0
Column Height (in mm) 10 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+55+y x 10 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title vow to Chnoum
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian
Summary of Content Vow, with the name of Chnoum, by Espmetis.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. m-bꜣḥ H̱nm n-ḏr.t Ns-pꜣ-mtr

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1[Before] Chnoum. By Espmetis [///]
46702Ha-2_O5113_01_S1_
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
23605 man Espmetis (Ω 5113) Ns-pꜣ-mtr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

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

46702Ha-2_O5113_01_S1_
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315468
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 315468 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5113), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).