Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4911

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4911
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	unpublished

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 Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Lower part broken off in undetermined extent.

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 covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7+y	8+y1
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	60	60
Column Height (in mm)	80	80+y
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	60 x 80+y	60 x 80+y

Modern Title	list of priest on duty, reused as account(?)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| account documentary \| list \| name list
Summary of Content	Recto list of priest on duty. Verso account on deliveries of oil in hin measures. It remains unclear if both texts are in any relation to each other.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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1	Psenamounis, son of Peleias.
2	Psenosiris, son of Psemchnoumis.
3	Imouthes, son of Ptolemaios.
4	Pelaias, son of Espmetis.
5	Psenpoeris, son of Harsiesis.
6	⸢..?..⸣
7	[Bi]enchis, son of Harsiesis.
cc 1	Argeios: 4 ½ hin.
cc 2	Sasobek(?)[_]: one and ½ hin.
cc 3	Imouthes, son of Orsenouphis: 4½ hin
cc 4	Sasobek(?) [_]_ 2 hin.
cc 5	Argeios: 2 hin.
cc 6	yields oil: 15 hin.
cc 7	⸢..?..⸣[///]
cc 8	⸢..?..⸣[///]

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
38630	man	Argeios	ꜣrgys	Greek, Ancient

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

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	318078
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 318078 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4911), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.