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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4255

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Metadata

Collection

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Publication Status unpublished

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 Lower 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) 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

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of names according to days
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
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: [///]

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 10 n sw 27
2Tꜣ-šr.t-Wsı͗r
3Tꜣ-šr.t-///
4ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 28 Tꜣ-
5Tꜣ-///
6///
7ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 29 Tꜣ-šr.t-
8
110th of Epeiph until the 27th:
2Senosiris ⸢..?..⸣ [///]
3Sen⸢///⸣[///]
428th Epeiph: Ta[///]
5S⸢///⸣⸢..?..⸣
6⸢..?..⸣ ⸢///⸣ ⸢..?..⸣
729th of Epeiph: Sen
8⸢..?..⸣[///]
DAIK_O_4255_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38310 woman Senosiris Tꜣ-šr.t-Wsı͗r pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

DAIK_O_4255_S1_001
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Literature

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.