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Ostr. London, BM EA 12164

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 12164
Current Location magazine

Origin / Provenance

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
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1878 and 1878
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Rev Greville John Chester
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Junker, Hermann
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating of Object Graeco-Roman
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete.

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) Heavily faded.
Script, Primary Demotic
Language, Primary Demotic
Comments on Text Layout The text was placed centered onto the potsherd, with a large right margin. The upper and lower crotches remain uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 21 0
Column Height (in mm) 54 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 21 x 54 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title text of unclear content
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content Text of unclear content.
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1..?..
2..?..
R
1..?..
2..?..
London_BM_EA-12164_R_S
Reserved Copyright
London_BM_EA-12164_S2_
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
5 (unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown) German

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
(undetermined) -664 BCE 211 CE ;

 

Pictures

London_BM_EA-12164_R_S
Reserved Copyright
London_BM_EA-12164_S2_
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 307374
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 388584
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307374 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12164), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.