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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5042

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5042
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Publication Status unpublished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 a1
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 Lower and left 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) Lower part and all line endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout The text shows a broad right margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 1+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 24 0
Column Height (in mm) 48 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 24+y x 48+y 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
convex
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. I͗mn-ḥtp (sꜣ) Ḥr

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Amenothes, (son) of Hor[///]
46701W_a-11_o5042_S1_0
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
24385 man Amenothes, son of Hor I͗mn-ḥtp sꜣ Ḥr 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. Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

46701W_a-11_o5042_S1_0
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315486
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 315486 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5042), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).