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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4243

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4243
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Publication Status	unpublished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	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
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Small line pitch. Layout undetectable due to the fragmentary condition. All line beginnings follow the outline shape of the right rim.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	25	0
Column Height (in mm)	70	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	25+y x 70	0

 

Text Content

Modern Title	List of names / account
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary | account documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content	Only a list of names is preserved. Due to the loss of the line endings, it remains unclear if this was a list of priests on duty or an account with a listing of deliverers of payment.
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
38245	man	Espmetis [///] (DAI O 4243) a	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	318048
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 318048 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4243), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.