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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5094

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5094
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Publication Status unpublished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 complete
State of Preservation Complete.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Heavily faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon, without lateral margins, but with small top and bottom margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 68 0
Column Height (in mm) 81 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 68 x 81 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of persons connected with deliveries or income
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content List of persons connected with deliveries or income of 2 or 4 silver kite. Most part of the text was erased intentionally by an ancient scribe.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. /// Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r ḥḏ qd
2///
3///
4///
5/// ḥḏ qd 2
6/// ḥḏ qd 4
7dmḏ ḥḏ dbn 1 ḥḏ qd 8

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1[[///]] Petosiris: [///] silver kite.
2[[///]]
3[[///]]
4[[///]] [///]
5[[///]] [_]: 2 silver kite.
6[[///]]⸢..?..⸣ [_]: 4 silver kite.
7Total: 1 silver deben, 8 silver kite.
47702Rc-2_o5094_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
24360 man Petosiris (Eleph Ω 5094) PꜢ-ḏỉ-Wsỉr 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

47702Rc-2_o5094_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315493
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 315493 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5094), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.