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Ostr. London, BM EA 12172

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 12172
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Publication Status unpublished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. Right part 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) Upper and lower part as well as all line beginnings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Medium and unequal linne pitch. Layout undetectable due to the fragmentary condition.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+5 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 78 0
Column Height (in mm) 70 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+78 x x+70+y 0

 

Text Content

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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x+1 6
x+2 -H̱nm 6
x+3 Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ 1
x+4 ḥḏ qd(? 1
x+5 6
II:1 20(?)
x+1 ..?..: 6 (deben)
x+2 [///]chnoumis: 6 (deben).
x+3 [///] Pelaias: 1 (deben)
x+4 [///] ⸢..?..⸣ 1 kite.
x+5 [///] ⸢..?..⸣: 6 (deben)
II:1 20(?) ..?..
London_BM_EA-12172_S1_
Reserved Copyright
London_BM_EA-12172_S2_
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
31095 man [///], son of Pelaiuas [///] sꜣ Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

London_BM_EA-12172_S1_
Reserved Copyright
London_BM_EA-12172_S2_
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 307384
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 388589
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307384 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12172), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.