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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4620

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4620
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Publication Status unpublished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.

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 Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the lower part of the potsherd, with broad lateral margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 55 0
Column Height (in mm) 30 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 55 x 30+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title ostracon with unclear content
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content This text remains unclear. In the first line a date is gicen, in the second a name. The third consists of ten thick vertical strokes, maybe as well the fourth line too.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 18
2Pa-mn(?)
3
4
118th of Pachons.
2Pamenis(?)
3..?..
4⸢..?..⸣[///]
DAIK_O_4620_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38390 man Pamenis(?) Pa-Mn(?) pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

DAIK_O_4620_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318061
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 318061 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4620), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.