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Ostr. London, BM EA 14160

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 14160
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 1876 and 1876
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 lower right corner broken off

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Line two compleely faded, beginning of the last line broken off.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Very wide line pitch. the text seems to be placed centered onto the potsherd.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 58 0
Column Height (in mm) 58 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 58 x 58 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title List of payments
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | administrative document
Summary of Content List of persons and their payments. Nothing is mentioned about the context of these transactions.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1Sytr(?) 1This name seems to be of non-Egyptian origin, its identification as well as the exact reading remains unclear to me. ḥḏ (dbn) 111 ⅕
2///
3 ḥḏ (dbn) 22⅕

1 This name seems to be of non-Egyptian origin, its identification as well as the exact reading remains unclear to me.
1Sytr?: 111⅕ silver (deben).
2⸢///⸣
3[///] 22⅕ silver (deben).
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
16135 (uncertain) Sitrou(?) Sytrw(?) (not identified)

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

London_BM_EA-14160_S1_
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London_BM_EA-14160_S2_
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 307395
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 388716
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307395 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14160), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.