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Ostr. unknown (auction USA 2019) 2

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. unknown (auction USA 2019) 2
Current Location (unknown)
Comments on Inventory sold in an online auction in the USA in 2019.
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status unpublished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 (unknown)
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Anonymous brothers (priests)
Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Anonymous brothers (priests)
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) de Rustafjaell, Robert
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation All sides 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) complete
State of Preservation (Text) All sides broken off in undetermined extent. Very faded.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout The text covers the entire surface of the (preserved) potsherd.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+5+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 0 0
Column Height (in mm) 0 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance unknown 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account on oil
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Account on oil measured in hin.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x+1
x+2 nḥḥ hn
x+3 nḥḥ 8.t hn 22
x+4 ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 10
x+5 nḥḥ hn 300
x+6 nḥḥ hn 35
x+7 hn
x+1 [///]⸢..?..⸣[///]
x+2 Oil [///] hin.
x+3 Oil regarding 8: 22 hin.
x+4 ⸢..?..⸣ 10th of Pachons.
x+5 Oil [_]: 300 hin.
x+6 Oil regarding 7½ [_]: 35 hin.
x+7 [///] [_]: [///] hin.
Ostr_Eleph-USA_2_S1_00
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period -30 BCE 211 CE Dating by prosopography. Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

Ostr_Eleph-USA_2_S1_00
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316913
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 316913 (= Ostr. unknown (auction USA 2019) 2), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.