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Ostr. London, BM EA 12124

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 12124
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Publication Status unpublished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
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Right part broken off in undetermined extent
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) All line beginnings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+8 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 58 0
Column Height (in mm) 34 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+58 x x+34 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of persons connected with deliveries or income
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content List of males connected with money delivered or received.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x+1 1Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
x+2 ḥḏ qd 30 OK
x+3 ꜣplys sꜣ ḥḏ qd 30
x+4 Hry-H̱nm sꜣ ꜣlys ḥḏ qd 30
x+5 OK Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-ns-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ-šr- ḥḏ qd 30
x+6 sꜣ Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ(?) ḥḏ qd 22
x+7 dmḏ 30 ḥḏ qd 2.t
x+8

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
x+1 ⸢..?..⸣[///]
x+2 ..?..: 30 kite. OK.
x+3 Apollos, son of ..?..: 30 kite.
x+4 Herichnoumis, son of Alys: 30 kite.
x+5 OK Petosorsmetis, son of Psen⸢..?..⸣: 30 kite.
x+6 Pelaias(?): [_] 22 kite.
x+7 Total 30 (deben), 2 kite. 1 deben = 10 kite
x+8 [///]⸢..?..⸣
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
35840 man Apollos, son of ..?.. ꜣplys sꜣ ..?.. Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

London_BM_EA-12124_S1_
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London_BM_EA-12124_S2_
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 307377
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 388578
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307377 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12124), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.