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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4247

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4247
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Publication Status unpublished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 complete
State of Preservation Complete.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

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) Complete.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout The text was placed centered on the potsherd, with small lateral and broad upper and lower margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 1 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 65 0
Column Height (in mm) 9 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 65 x 9 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title vow to a deity whose name is lost
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian
Summary of Content Vow, with the name of the deity broken off.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1Pachnoumis, son of Pete⸢..?..⸣
DAI_O_4247_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38285 man Pachnoumis, son of Pete⸢..?..⸣ Pa-H̱nm sꜣ ⸢Pꜣ-ḏı͗-⸣⸢..?..⸣ 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_4247_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318049
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 318049 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4247), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.