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Collection | London, British Museum |
Inventory Number | Ostr. London, BM EA 14096 |
Current Location | magazine |
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 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 | Late Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Roman Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed centered onto the potsherd, with unequal lateral margins. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 2 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 59 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 32 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 59 x 32 | 0 |
Modern Title | account of balance |
Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Account of the balance ("the rest") of Psenpchois in an amount of 4½ silver deben and 1 silver kite. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
16085 | man | Psenpchois | Pꜣ-šr-n-pꜣ-ḫy | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Roman Period | -30 BCE 211 CE | Dating by palaeography.; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 307391 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 388699 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307391 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14096), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |