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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O5139

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O5139
Current Location Elephantine, excavation magazine DAI
Comments on Inventory There seems to be an inventory error confusing ostraca numbers 5130 and 5139. Exactly which number is for this ostracon is unclear.
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Publication Status unpublished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:
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery excavation or purchase
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt
Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation (undecidable)
Comments on Object See provenance notes.

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 6 2
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Double Used Sherd
Text Types
  • documentary
  • Documentary | Jar Label
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content The text on cv is either a list of distributions (or less likley collections) of barley. It appears to be a jar label that was broken and not erased when the ostracon was reused for the missive, which poorly preserved. CC is a missive as indicated by the relatively clear word "Now" on line two. The surviving evidence suggests that it was a two line missive and that the edges of the original ostracon survive.
Gender Woman
Comment on Gender Two women, whose first names are lost, appear in the list of at least three names.

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
CC
1כענ ◦◦◦ ש
2כענ
CV
1
2ברת נתונ ס 𐡘𐡘𐡘 𐡘
3 ש ס 𐡘𐡘𐡘 𐡘
4[ברת נתנ ש ס 𐡘𐡘𐡘 𐡘
5 כר כד ש ס 𐡘𐡘𐡘 𐡘
6[שערנ 𐡘𐡘𐡘 𐡘 פ 𐡘
CC
1⸢N⸣ow ◦◦◦ Š...
2⸢N⸣ow, ...
CV
1[...]◦◦
2[... dau]ghter of Nattûn, b(arley), 4 s(eah)
3[...] b(arley), 4 s(eah)
4[... dau]⸢ght⸣er of Natan, b(arley), 4 s(eah)
5{[...]kr | [...]kd} b(arley), 4 s(eah)
6[... ba]rley, 4 (x) + 1 p(rs ?)/h(alf)
Eleph_DIAK_5130bis_S2_
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Eleph_DAIK_5139bis-ir_
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Eleph_DAIK_5139-innen-
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Eleph_DAIK_5139-innen-
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
37000 woman ... daughter of Nattûn ... ברת נתונ Aramaic, Imperial

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
-525 BCE -399 BCE ;

 

Pictures

Eleph_DIAK_5130bis_S2_
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Eleph_DAIK_5139bis-ir_
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Eleph_DAIK_5139-innen-
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Eleph_DAIK_5139-innen-
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 317952
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 317952 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O5139), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.