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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst 47703E/a-12

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst 47703E/a-12
Current Location Elephantine, excavation magazine SwissInst
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details temple workshop H210 / building stratum 2A
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 Aswan / Syene
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) Upper and lower part as well as all line beginnings and endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+2+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 60 0
Column Height (in mm) 76 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+60+y x x+76+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of persons (priests on-duty or account)
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content List of names of priests on-duty in the temple, presumably the Chnoum temple.
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. (Det.) sꜣ Ns-
2 Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ sꜣ Pa-wb(?)

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1[///]Det., son of Es⸢..?..⸣ [///]
2[///] Pelaias, son of Paweb(?) [///]
47703Ea-12_01_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
24410 man Pelaias, son of Paweb(?) Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ sꜣ Pa-wb(?) pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) -332 BCE -222 BCE Dating by archaeological context. Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

47703Ea-12_01_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315485
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 315485 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst 47703E/a-12), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.