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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4698

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4698
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Publication Status	unpublished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.

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)	Complete.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the left half of the potsherd, without a right margin.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	14	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	list of priests on-duty
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| list \| name list
Summary of Content	List of priests on duty, 13 persons preserved. They belong to the Chnoum temple personnel and started their service on a 12th day. Presmably most are accompanied with an OK sign.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

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1	sw 12 m-bꜣḥ H̱nm
2	OK Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mtr
3	OK Ns-H̱nm sꜣ Ḥr-wḏꜣ
4	[_] Pꜣ-šr-pꜣ-mw.t sꜣ Ḏd-ḥr
5	OK Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Ḥr-wḏꜣ
6	OK By-ꜥnḫ sꜣ ꜣylws
7	OK Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ [_] sꜣ Pa-tw
8	sl sꜣ Ḏd-ḥr
9	sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-ꜣs.t
10	Pa-tw
11
12	Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ
13
14	Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t

1	12th day before Chnoum
2	OK Espmetis, son of Espmetis.
3	OK Eschnoumis, son of Haryothes.
4	[_] Psenpamouthis, son of Teos.
5	OK Pachnoumis, son of Haryothes.
6	OK Bienchis, son of Aylos.
7	OK Pelaias, [_] son of Pates.
8	[///]s, son of Teos.
9	[///]⸢..?..⸣, son of Peteesis.
10	[///] Pates.
11	[///]⸢..?..⸣
12	[Pel]aias.
13	[///]
14	[///] Harpaesis.

DAIK_O_4698_S1_001

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
38480	man	Bienchis, son of Aylos	By-ꜥnḫ sꜣ ꜣylws	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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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	318071
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 318071 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4698), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.