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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4267

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4267
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Publication Status unpublished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 Right and lower parts 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 Demotic
Language, Primary Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text convers nearly the entire (preserved) surface of the potsherd.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 55 0
Column Height (in mm) 50 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 55 x 50 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account on payments of money
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content List of persons connected with deliveries or income in kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pꜣ-///
2 Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ(?) pꜣ ḥḏ qd 3 ½ 1/12
3 ḥḏ qd 3
4
1[///] ⸢..?..⸣ Pachnoumis, son of Pa⸢///⸣
2[///] Pelaias, the silver kite 3 ½ 1/12 ⸢..?..⸣
3[///] ⸢..?..⸣ 3 kite
4[///] ⸢..?..⸣
DAIK_O_4267_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38340 man Pachnoumis, son of Pa⸢///⸣ Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pꜣ-⸢///⸣ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O_4267_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318054
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 318054 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4267), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.