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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 5183

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 5183
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Publication Status	unpublished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:
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	incomplete
State of Preservation	All four sides are broken off in undetermined extent.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

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 broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text covers the entire surface of the (preserved) potsherd.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+6+y	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	115	0
Column Height (in mm)	90	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	x+115+y x x+90+y	0

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Account (?)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content	A list of names is preserved only. The presence of ḏj may point to an account or receipt.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
38185	man	Espmetis (DAI O 5183)	Ns-pꜣ-mtr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty				-332 BCE -30 BCE	;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	318040
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 318040 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 5183), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.