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Ostr. London, BM EA 14045

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 14045
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Publication Status unpublished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 1875 and 1875
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 complete
State of Preservation Complete.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Complete.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire (preserved) surface of the potsherd, with small margins on all sides. the upper left crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 70 0
Column Height (in mm) 89 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 70 x 89 0

 

Text Content

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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1sp Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr sttr 2.t ḏbꜥ.t 9 ẖn
2Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ sttr 4.t ḏbꜥ.t 5
3Pa-rn=f(?) (ḥḏ dbn) 4½ ḥḏ qd ⸢12⸣ ḏbꜥ.t 2
4Pꜣ-šr-H̱nm sp ḏbꜥ.t 12
5Ḥtp=w sp ḏbꜥ.t 9
6 pꜣ tꜣ dny(.t) (dbn) 4½ ḥḏ qd 1
1Rest of ´Peteyris`: 2 stater, 9 obols, out of:
2Pelaias: 4 stater, 5 obol
3Parenef(?) 4½ (silver deben), 11 silver kite, 2 obol.
4Psenchnoumis: Rest 12 obol.
5Hetpheus: Rest 9 obol.
6The share: 4 ½ (deben), 1 silver kite.
London_BM_EA-14045_S1_
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London_BM_EA-14045_S2_
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
26520 man Hetpheus (BM EA 14045) Ḥtp=w pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period -30 BCE 50 CE Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

London_BM_EA-14045_S1_
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London_BM_EA-14045_S2_
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 307388
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 388690
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307388 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14045), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.