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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4571

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4571
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Publication Status unpublished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 Upper and left parts 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) All line endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Layout undetectable due to the fragmentary condition.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+4 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+y x 50 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of names
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content Only a list of names (three times Petosorsmetis) is preserved. Due to the fragmentary condition it remains unclear if this was a list of priest on duty, an account, or merely a scribal training.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
x+1 [_] Petosor[smetis ///]
x+2 Petosors[metis ///]
x+3 Petosor[smetis ///]
x+4 ⸢..?..⸣[///]
DAIK_O_4571_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38370 man Petosorsmetis (DAIK O 4571 1.) Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-Ns-mtr 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. Dating by content. Dating by prosopography.;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O_4571_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318059
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 318059 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4571), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.