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Collection | London, British Museum |
Inventory Number | Ostr. London, BM EA 12091 |
Publication Number | ined. |
Current Location | London, British Museum |
Publication Status | unpublished |
Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
Ancient Provenance Details | (unknown) |
Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Discovery | find (unspecified) Certainty: high |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | Rev Greville John Chester Certainty: high |
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt | unknown |
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | purchase |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Chester, Greville John Certainty: high |
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) | Junker, Hermann Certainty: high |
Object Type | ostracon |
Dating of Object | Graeco-Roman |
Criteria for Dating | date in text |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | broken at left |
Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | broken at left, surface damaged | |
Script, Primary | Greek | |
Script, additional A | Late Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Greek, Ancient | |
Language, additional A | Roman Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | documentary, hand of Pachompaimouthes?, with signature of the same in Demotic? | |
Comments on Text Layout | The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small margins. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 8 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 0 | |
Column Height (in mm) | 0 | |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 0 |
Modern Title | receipt for contribution? |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | receipt of Dionysios and Ammonios and Pachomp(aimouthes), praktores of Syene, for merismos?, paid by Patchnaus, son of Patchnaus, grandson of Pasenis --- , probably in year 18 of Trajan. |
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) | Demotic subscription: scribe (=praktor) |
Location of Composition | Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Comments on Text | Problem Pachompaimouthes: dem-greek? Namen? |
Multilingualism | Bilingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
12435 | man | Ammonios praktor (Syene) | Ammonios praktor | Greek, Ancient |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Trajan | 18 | Mecheir | 30 | 115 February 24 CE | date in text, year incertain; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 307373 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 388576 |
Author | Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic) |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307373 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12091), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic). |