Ostr. London, BM EA 12174

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	London, British Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. London, BM EA 12174
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Publication Status	unpublished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
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Upper and left 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 part and all line endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text shows a very small right margin, and a broad lower one.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	47	0
Column Height (in mm)	45	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	47 x 45	0

Text Content

Modern Title	list of persons or account
Ancient Archives	administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| account documentary \| list \| name list
Summary of Content	List of persons or account. Most of the text is lost.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Text

Transcription

Translation

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x+1	Pa-tꜣs
x+2
x+3	Ṯꜣy-lgns [///] ¹For this name not attested in the Demotisches Namenbuch, see the name in Ostr. London BM EA 12174:x+3, where a certain Ṯꜣy-lgne is mentioned. For lgns „jug, flask“ coming from the Greek λάγυνος“ cf. ERICHSEN, Demotisches Glossar, 265 und CDD L, 21 – 22.
x+4	H̱nm-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s(?) (sꜣ) Pꜣ-tꜣ

¹ For this name not attested in the Demotisches Namenbuch, see the name in Ostr. London BM EA 12174:x+3, where a certain Ṯꜣy-lgne is mentioned. For lgns „jug, flask“ coming from the Greek λάγυνος“ cf. ERICHSEN, Demotisches Glossar, 265 und CDD L, 21 – 22.

x+1	Patas [///]
x+2	..?.. [///]
x+3	Tjai-legnes [///]
x+4	Chnoumortaios, (son) of Patos ⸢..?..⸣ [///]

London_BM_EA-12174_S1_

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
26760	man	Chnoumortaios, son of Patos ⸢..?..⸣ (BM EA 12174)	H̱nm-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s(?) sꜣ Pꜣ-tꜣ ⸢..?..⸣ [///]	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

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

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	307385
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	388591
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307385 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12174), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.