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Collection | London, British Museum |
Inventory Number | Ostr. London, BM EA 12169 |
Current Location | magazine |
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Publication Status | unpublished |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: 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 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 Type | ostracon |
Dating of Object | Graeco-Roman |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Right part broken off in undetermined extent |
Localization of Text on Object | convex/concave (outside/inside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | All line beginnings broken off in undetermined extent. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. Outside: The text convers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small margins on all sides. Inside: Layout unclear due to heavily faded script. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | x+17 | 9+y |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 60 | unknown |
Column Height (in mm) | 140 | unknown |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | x+60 x 140 | unknown |
Modern Title | Account |
Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Account mentioning different sums and quoting remaining payments. Detailed context unclear due to the heavily faded condition of the text. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic dynasty | -332 BCE 284 CE | ; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 307380 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 388586 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307380 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12169), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |