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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4206

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4206
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Publication Status unpublished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 Upper and lower parts 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
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon, with small lateral margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+6 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 58 0
Column Height (in mm) 35 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 58 x x+35+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account on wheat and oil
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Fragment of an account, where wheat, barley and tgm-oil are listed. A certain Petephaus seems to have paid 2 stater.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x+1
x+2 Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pꜣ- ḥwṱ sttr 2
x+3 sw-ı͗t rtb 1½ ⸢ntı͗-ı͗r(?) ḏbꜥ.t(?)⸣ 19
x+4 tgm mḏꜣ.t 6 ntı͗-ı͗r ḏbꜥ.t 9
x+5 ı͗bd 4 pr.t sw 10 r(?) sw 21
x+6
x+1 ⸢..?..⸣[///]
x+2 Petephaus [_]: 2 stater.
x+3 Wheat-barley mix: 1½ artabas, which(?) makes(?) 19 obols.
x+4 tgm-oil: 6 medjat, which makes 9 obols
x+5 ⸢..?..⸣ 10th to 21st of Pharmouthi
x+6 [///]⸢..?..⸣[///]
DAI_O_4206_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38200 man Petephaus (DAI O 4206) Pꜣ-ḏı-pꜣ-ḥwṱ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period -30 BCE 211 CE ;

 

Pictures

DAI_O_4206_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318043
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 318043 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4206), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.