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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5053

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5053
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Publication Status unpublished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 a3
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) Partly faded.
Script, Primary Early Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed centered on the potsherd, with broad but inequal margins on all sides. The lower left crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 43 0
Column Height (in mm) 53 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 43 x 53 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 income of 4 silver kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. sꜣ Ḥr-m-ḥb ḥḏ qd 4
2Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r (sꜣ) Pa- ḥḏ qd 4
3/// ḥḏ qd 4
4Pa-Ḏḥwti sꜣ Pa-wn ḥḏ qd 4
5Pa-Ḏḥwtı͗ ḥḏ qd 4
6r 10.t 2Here no currency is given, but due to the currency translation 20 kite = 10 stater it must be stater.

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
2 Here no currency is given, but due to the currency translation 20 kite = 10 stater it must be stater.
1..?.., son of Harmais: [_] 4 silver kite.
2Petosiris, (son) of Pa⸢..?..⸣: [_]4 silver kite.
3[[///]]: [_] [[4 silver kite]].
4Pathothes, son of Phagonis: [_] 4 silver kite.
5Pathothes ..?..: [_] 4 silver kite.
6Yields 10 (stater).
46702Ga-3_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
26660 man ..?.., son of Harmais (Eleph Ω 5053) ..?.. sꜣ Ḥr-m-ḥb pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Nectanebo II -359 BCE -341 BCE Dating by archaeological context.;

 

Pictures

46702Ga-3_01_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315521
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 315521 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 5053), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.