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Collection | Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4255 |
Current Location | magazine |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication upon enquiry only |
Publication Status | unpublished |
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 Type | ostracon |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Lower part broken off in undetermined extent. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Lower part broken off in undetermined extent. | |
Script, Primary | Late Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Roman Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Small line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the (preserved) ostracon. All line beginnings are oriented to the outline shape of the right rim. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 8+y | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 55 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 62 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 55 x 62+y | 0 |
Modern Title | list of names according to days |
Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | On this ostracon, for the 10th to 27th, 28, and 29th day two female names each were listed. The context remains unclear, but possibyl these women were in duty for work on these special days, maybe as priestesses or slaves. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Script = Language Monolingual |
Gender | Man Woman |
Comment on Gender | - activity of woman: priestess/ slave on duty(?) - identifier of woman: [///] |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
38310 | woman | Senosiris | Tꜣ-šr.t-Wsı͗r | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Roman Period | -30 BCE 211 CE | Dating by palaeography.; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 318052 |
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 318052 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4255), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |