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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4254

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4254
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Publication Status	unpublished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.
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)	Line endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper half of the (preserved) sheet, without lateral margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	40	0
Column Height (in mm)	33	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	40+y x 33	0

 

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for compulsory labor tax
Ancient Archives	private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [lost])
Text Types	documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	Psennesis, son of Espmetis, is confirmed by [///] of having paid the compulsory labor tax für the 4th regnal year. All further details are lost.
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
38305	man	Psennesis, son of Espmetis	Pꜣ-šr-ꜣs.t sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-⸢mtr⸣	pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early)				-332 BCE -222 BCE	Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	318051
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 318051 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4254), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.