Ostr. London, BM EA 12170+14167
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
London, British Museum |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. London, BM EA 12170+14167 |
| 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unpublished |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 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
| Object Type |
ostracon |
| Dating of Object |
Graeco-Roman |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
Upper and lower parts broken off in undetermined extent. |
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) |
Upper and lower parts broken off in undetermined extent. |
| Script, Primary |
Late Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Roman Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Medium line pitch.
The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon, with a small left margin. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
x+14 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
82 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
110 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
82 x x+110+y |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
account |
| Ancient Archives |
administrative archive of unclear context |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content |
Fragmentary account, mentioning names and amounts of money. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man
Woman |
| Comment on Gender |
- Activity of woman: beneficiary / deliverer of payment
- identifier of woman: [///] |
Text
People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 36725 |
man |
Psenpaïbis |
Pꜣ-šr-n-Pa-hb |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Roman Period |
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-30 BCE 211 CE |
Dating by prosopography.
Dating by palaeography.; |
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Literature
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID |
307381 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
388587+388720 |
| Author |
Jan Moje |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 307381 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12170+14167), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
