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| Collection | London, British Museum |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. London, BM EA 12173 |
| Current Location | magazine |
| Publication Status | unpublished |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) | Chester, Greville John 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: medium |
| Object Type | ostracon |
| Range of Preservation | complete |
| State of Preservation | Complete. |
| Localization of Text on Object | one-sided | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | Complete. | |
| Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the potsherd. The upper middle crotch remained uninscribed. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 2 | 0 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 71 | 0 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 24 | 0 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 71 x 24 | 0 |
| Modern Title | receipt for guardian payment |
| Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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| Summary of Content | Esyris, son of Pasenis, is confirmed by Peteyris, of having paid a guard, in an amount of 1 artabes wheat. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||
1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. |
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 7495 | man | Esyris, son of Pasenis | Ns-Ḥr sꜢ Pa-sny | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) | 17 | -332 BCE -222 BCE | Dating by palaeography. Dating by content. Dating by prosopography.; |
| London_BM_EA-12173_S1_ |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| London_BM_EA-12173_S2_ |
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| Reserved Copyright |
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID | 307383 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 388590 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 307383 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12173), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
