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Ostr. London, BM EA 14102

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 14102
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Publication Status unpublished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 Late Period > 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 text was placed onto the upper half of the sheet, without lateral margins. Length of lines varying. The lower half remains uninscribed except for one line mentioning the rest of the total.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 70 0
Column Height (in mm) 48 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 70 x 48 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for money paying
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Senpsansnos, daughter of Peteyris, is confirmed by Petosorsmetis, son of Peteyris (presumably her brother), of having claim on money.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - activity of woman: contractant - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-Ns-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr pꜣ nty ḏd n Tꜣ-šrt-Pꜣ-sn-sn.w
2ta Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr tw=y ꜥš r.ı͗r=ṯ tw=y m sꜣ=ṯ n
3sttr 2.t ẖr nꜣ swn n pꜣy=f 10.t 60?
4sp 6.t 1.t sttr 23
1Petosorsmetis, son of Peteyris, is the one who speaks to Senpsansnos,
2daughter of Peteyris: I am citing you. I have claim on you for
3the 2 stater regarding the value for his ..?.. .
4Rest: 6 (deben), 1 (kite?), 23 stater.
London_BM_EA-14102_S1_
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London_BM_EA-14102_S2_
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
30885 woman Senpsansnos, daughter of Peteyris Tꜣ-šrt-Pꜣ-sn-sn.w ta Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

London_BM_EA-14102_S1_
Reserved Copyright
London_BM_EA-14102_S2_
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 307392
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 388702
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307392 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14102), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.