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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4941

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4941
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Publication Status unpublished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 and all line beginnings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Very wide line pitch.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 63 0
Column Height (in mm) 40 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+63 x 40+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Account. List of males connected with amounts of money.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1-H̱nm sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp ///
2 sꜣ Wlꜣqs(?) ḥḏ qd ¼(?)
3 sꜣ Thwmns 30
4Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ (sꜣ) Pꜣ-wr ḥḏ qd 10
5⸢..?..⸣dbn(?) 4
1[///]chnoumis, son of Imouthes: ⸢///⸣.
2[///]⸢..?..⸣: ¼ silver kite.
3⸢..?..⸣, son of Theomenes: 30 (deben?).
4Pelaias, (son) of Poeris: 10 silver kite.
5[///]⸢..?..⸣ 4 deben(?).
DAIK_O_4941_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38730 man Pelaias, son of Poeris Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ sꜣ Pꜣ-wr 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_4941_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318083
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 318083 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4941), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.