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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4618

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4618
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Publication Status unpublished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 complete
State of Preservation Complete.
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
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout The text was placed onto the upper part of the potsherd.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 1 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 55 0
Column Height (in mm) 10 0
Height of Line / Letter 10
Line Distance 55 x 10 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title vow to a deity whose name is lost (?)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious-literary | polytheistic Egyptian
Summary of Content Vow, with the name of the deity broken off.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Prṱmgs
1Protomachos
DAIK_O_4618_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38385 man Protomachos (DAIK O 4618) Prṱmgs Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period -30 BCE 50 CE Dating by palaeography. Dating by content. Dating by prosopography.;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O_4618_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318060
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 318060 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4618), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.