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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4624

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4624
Publication Number Röllig, DAIK 36, no. 40
Current Location Elephantine, excavation magazine DAI

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine / Syene () [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details Fund-Nr. 38800
Ancient Provenance District Lower Egypt, 1st nome (Memphites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Lower Egypt, 1st nome (Memphites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution excavation finds

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave/convex (inside/outside)
Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 4
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Inscription on Sherd
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Sender instructs addressee to do something (acquire or send ?) measurements of something to be sent to a group of women. Sender confirms the intention to purchase other goods.
Multilingualism Monolingual
Gender Woman
Comment on Gender A group of women are the object of some delivery.
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
1יה כענ מל
2פ כ ר ו ר ד א
3 ופלג למנ ה ת
4ת מנה לא
5שלחת להנ
convex
1כ חפנ 1 כנת
2לאתי תחתי
3כמ ואזבנ ק
4בקבנ 𐡘𐡘𐡘 שערנ
1[PN]yh. Now, ML[◦◦]
2[...]P( )KW{D|R}ˀ
3[...] and half for a portion/mina (of)
4[...]T a mina/from him/portion
5[...]I sent to them (fem.)
convex
1[...]K. 1 handful of Emm[er...]
2There is not under (me?)[...]
3you (m.p.). I shall buy Q◦[...]
4with 3 qabs, grain [...]
DAI_O4624_Aram_S2_001
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DAI_O4624_Aram_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
28940 (unknown) Ml... מל... Aramaic, Imperial

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
27th dynasty ;

 

Pictures

DAI_O4624_Aram_S2_001
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DAI_O4624_Aram_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315565
last Change 29.07.2022
Author James D. Moore
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 315565 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4624), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.