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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1455

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1455
Publication Number inedit
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) (unknown)
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution (unknown)

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Left part 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) All line endings are broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. Only one line visible, the rest was wiped out. The lower part of the potsherd remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 1 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 60 0
Column Height (in mm) 47 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 60+y x x+47 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title vow to a deity whose name is lost (?)
Ancient Archives unclear
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
x+1 [[///]]
x+2 [///] Imouthes, (son) of Ouaph[res] [///]
Paris_Louvre_ODL_1455_
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
25670 man Imouthes, son of Oaphres I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Wꜣḥ-ı͗b-Rꜥ 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 palaeography, dating by prosopography;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315810
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 315810 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1455), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).