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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4692

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4692
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Publication Status	unpublished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)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Some signs are faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Very wide line pitch. The text is placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, without lateral margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	2	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	receipt for money paying
Ancient Archives	administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Peret, son of Payris Petemestous, son of Patous
Text Types	documentary | receipt
Summary of Content	Ke..?.., son of Pachnoumis, is confirmed by Petemestous, son of Patous, of having paid 6 silver kite. The context is not mentioned. Countersigned by Peret, son of Payris.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
38450	man	Ke..?.., son of Pachnoumis	G..?.. sꜣ Pa-H̱nm	(not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	21	Mesore		-226 September 10 BCE -226 October 9 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	318068
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 318068 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4692), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.