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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4923

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4923
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Publication Status unpublished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.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

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 covers nearly the entires surface of the potsherd, with small margins on all sides.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 90 0
Column Height (in mm) 100 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 90 x 100+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Account. List of males and two females connected with "shares". The context is not given.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: beneficiary / deliverer of payment - Identifier of woman: none (mentioned with ırm together with a man)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1The counting of Pachnoumis Senior.
2Petephais, son of Paaou [_]: share 2.
3Phatres (and?) Senanoubis [_]: share 1.
4Harmon, son of Pachnoumis [_]: share 1.
5Harpaesis, son of Psenchnoumis, (son) of Harimouthes: sahre 1.
6Senpachnoumis (and?) Pelaias [_]: share 1.
7Pachnoumis, son of Pelaias, son of Pachnoumis: share 1.
8..?.. [_]: share 1.
9⸢..?..⸣: share ⸢..?..⸣.
DAIK_O_4923_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38670 man Harmon, son of Pachnoumis Hrmn sꜣ Pa-H̱nm pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O_4923_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318081
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 318081 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4923), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.