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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5108

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5108
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Publication Status unpublished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 Upper and lateral parts 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) Upper part and all line beginnings and endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Early Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic
Comments on Text Layout The text was placed onto the upper part of the potsherd.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+1 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 55 0
Column Height (in mm) 18 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+55+y x x+18 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title vow to a deity whose name is lost (?)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian
Summary of Content Only a name is visible, possibly a vow?
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
x+11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. m-bꜣḥ DN n-ḏr.t Ns-pꜣ-mtr mw.t=f ⸢..?..⸣

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
x+1[Before] ⸢DN. By⸣ Espmetis (son) of his mother ⸢..?..⸣ [///]
47701Sa-4_O5108_01_S1_
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
24530 man Espmetis, son of his mother ⸢..?..⸣ [///] Ns-pꜣ-mtr mw.t=f ⸢..?..⸣ [///] 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 Dating by archaeological context.;

 

Pictures

47701Sa-4_O5108_01_S1_
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315472
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 315472 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5108), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).