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Collection | London, British Museum |
Inventory Number | Ostr. London, BM EA 14160 |
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 1876 and 1876 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Chester, Greville John Certainty: high |
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) | Junker, Hermann Certainty: high |
Object Type | ostracon |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | lower right corner broken off |
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 |
Modern Title | List of payments |
Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||
1 This name seems to be of non-Egyptian origin, its identification as well as the exact reading remains unclear to me. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
16135 | (uncertain) | Sitrou(?) | Sytrw(?) | (not identified) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Roman Period | -30 BCE 211 CE | ; |
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. |