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Ostr. London, BM EA 14096

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 14096
Current Location magazine

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
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete.

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

Modern Title account of balance
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1pꜣ sp n Pꜣ-šr-n-Pꜣ-ḫy
2dny(.t) 4½ ḥḏ qd 1
R
1The rest of Psenpchois:
2Share 4½ (deben), 1 silver kite.
London_BM_EA-14096_S1_
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London_BM_EA-14096_S2_
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
16085 man Psenpchois Pꜣ-šr-n-pꜣ-ḫy 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.;

 

Pictures

London_BM_EA-14096_S1_
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London_BM_EA-14096_S2_
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Literature

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.