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| Inventory Number | Ostr. Paris, Louvre OEI 12 |
| Current Location | Paris, Musée National du Louvre |
| 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| Publication Status | unpublished |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: |
| Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Discovery | archaeological excavation Certainty: |
| Finder (= First Purchaser) | Clermont-Ganneau, Charles Certainty: |
| Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Elephantine |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | partage |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Clermont-Ganneau, Charles Certainty: |
| Object Type | ostracon |
| Dating of Object | Meroitic? |
| Script, Primary | Meroitic Cursive | |
| Script, additional A | (not identified) | |
| Script, additional B | (not identified) | |
| Language, Primary | Meroitic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | Unusual combination of hcursive and hierogylphic signs. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 7 | |
| Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
| Summary of Content | This is a highly unusual ostracon. Found on Elephantine this would be one of the rare examples of this script in main land Egypt. This can possibly refer to the foreign influence of the south. Compare OEI 1-13. |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| -300 BCE 400 CE | Meroitic?; |
| OEI_12_S1_001 |
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| Reserved Copyright |
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID | 318668 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Author | Verena Lepper |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 318668 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OEI 12), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper. |
