Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4683

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4683
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Publication Status	unpublished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 right 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
State of Preservation (Text)	Upper part and all line beginnings broken off in undetermiend 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+3	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)		0
Column Height (in mm)		0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance		0

Text Content

Modern Title	astronomical text
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	scientific \| astronomy
Summary of Content	Small fragment from an astronomical text, mentioning Saturn(?), Venus and Aquarius.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

x+1
x+2	[///] ⸢Pꜣ-⸣di͗-ꜣs.t [_] ⸢..?..⸣
x+3	x+2\| [///]⸢a n⸣¹Or are we to read it as a Fallen enemy det.? A noun is expected to precede nb. The sign is curved at the top which fits with ꜥn, however. The earlier reading of kꜣ is probably incorrect: there is no star determinative and what first appeared as the middle stroke of the Bull sign appears on a clearer picture to be a darkened salt stain. nb ⸢..?..⸣²Perhaps two words? Could the second be m-sꜣ? nꜣ rmṯ(.w)³What do we do with the oblique stroke after “rmṯ(.w)”. ⸢..?..⸣
x+4	x+3\| [///] nṯr-dwꜣ (n) rpyt(?)
x+5	⁴Traces of ink protruding from below.

¹ Or are we to read it as a Fallen enemy det.? A noun is expected to precede nb. The sign is curved at the top which fits with ꜥn, however. The earlier reading of kꜣ is probably incorrect: there is no star determinative and what first appeared as the middle stroke of the Bull sign appears on a clearer picture to be a darkened salt stain.
² Perhaps two words? Could the second be m-sꜣ?
³ What do we do with the oblique stroke after “rmṯ(.w)”.
⁴ Traces of ink protruding from below.

convex

x+1	[///] ⸢..?..⸣
x+2	[///] Peteese [_] ⸢..?..⸣
x+3	x+2\| [/// Sa]turn ⸢..?..⸣ the people ⸢..?..⸣
x+4	x+3\| Venus in Aquarius
x+5	[///] ⸢..?..⸣

DAIK_O_4683_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
40155	man	Peteesis (Eleph DAI 4683)	PꜢ-ḏỉ-Ꜣs.t	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

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

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DAIK_O_4683_S1_001

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	318066
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Jan Moje (Metadata); Andreas Winkler (transcription, translation)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 318066 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4683), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Metadata); Andreas Winkler (transcription, translation).