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| Inventory Number | Ostr. 14-2-61-5/2 |
| Publication Number | Moore, Semitica 2022, no. 17 |
| Current Location | magazine Assuan |
| Publication Permission Status | permission for publication assigned |
| Publication Status | unpublished |
| Ancient Provenance Site | Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
| Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Discovery | archaeological excavation Certainty: |
| Finder (= First Purchaser) | Excavaton Team (Aswan) Syene, Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt Certainty: |
| Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Aswan / Syene |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Object Type | ostracon |
| Criteria for Dating | Paleography / Find Circumstance. |
| Range of Preservation | complete |
| Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
| Script, Primary | Phoenician | |
| Language, Primary | Carian | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 3 | |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Modern Title | Fragmentary Ostracon. |
| Ancient Archives | unclear |
| Text Types |
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| Location of Composition | Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: unknown) |
| Comments on Text | From Moore, Semitica 2022, no. 17: The letters on the second and third lines may be identified as poorly written Phoenician characters, while the first line ends with the numeral "3". The first character on the top line is clearly not Phoenician (or Aramaic) and preceded by a dot; this character throws doubt on reading the text as Phoenician. The first character looks, at first glance, to be a dot followed by a Carian W and the numeral 3: ??? ?● that is "●W 3." The second line may be interpreted as Phoenician characters, but it too poses problems, specifically the dots in the middle of the line. If read as Phoenician it can be proposed: [...]⸢??⸣? ●●? that is "T●● G⸢NM⸣[...]." If this is correct could the jar label GN be used here in the plural? For the letter T see next line. The third line is also problematic, but if read as Phoenician it may be: [...]◦ ● ● ? ? {?? |??◦} that is "{◦NB |QB} ˀ T ● ● ◦[...]." The reading ◦NB is too broken to discuss, but it looks as though it could also be the imperial measurement qab. This measurement is well attested in the Aramaic evidence, but so far not attested in the Phoenician script. The letter ˀ can stand alone as an unknown abbreviation, or next to another abbreviation, in Phoenician (e.g. Ves. Eleph. DAIK/SI O 2871, Fund-Nr. 17250a = Röllig no. 21). The letter T may be an abbreviation, which is so far not attested at Elephantine or Syene but known from the greater Mediterranean evidence. The sherd's curiously strange script and the use of dots suggest that this may be a collection of notes or a scribal exercise. |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual |
| Religion | unknown |
| Religion, further | unknown |
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| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| -525 BCE -399 BCE | ; |
| Syene_SI-Moore_no17_14 |
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| Reserved Copyright |
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID | 318392 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Author | James D. Moore |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 318392 (= Ostr. 14-2-61-5/2), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore. |
