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Ostr. London, BM EA 12068

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 12068
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Publication Status unpublished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 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 9 11 1878 and 9 11 1878
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Chester, Greville John
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Junker, Hermann
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating of Object Graeco-Roman
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation All sides broken off in undetermined extent.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) All sides broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide but irregular line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+6+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 34 0
Column Height (in mm) 52 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+34+y x x+52+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title ostracon with illegible text
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content Content unclear due to the heavily faded condition of the text. Only krkr "talent" is visible which points to some kind of account or receipt.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x+1 krkr
x+2
x+3
x+4
x+5 -Ḫnsw
x+6
x+1[///] talent [///]
x+2[///] ⸢..?..⸣[///]
x+3[///] ⸢..?..⸣[///]
x+4[///] ⸢..?..⸣[///]
x+5[///]chonsis(?) ⸢..?..⸣[///]
x+6[///] ⸢..?..⸣[///]
London_BM_EA-12068_S1_
Reserved Copyright
London_BM_EA-12068_S2_
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
3560 (unknown) (Unknown [lost]) (Unknown [lost]) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period -30 BCE 211 CE ;

 

Pictures

London_BM_EA-12068_S1_
Reserved Copyright
London_BM_EA-12068_S2_
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 307376
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 388571
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307376 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12068), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.