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Ostr. London, BM EA 14168

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 14168
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Publication Status unpublished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 15 6 1876 and 15 6 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 Upper and lateral parts broken off in undetermined extent.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Upper part and all line beginning and endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text layout cannot be detected due to the fragmentary condition of the potsherd.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 70 0
Column Height (in mm) 24 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+70+y x x+24 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content List of persons connected with deliveries or income of money payment.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x+1
x+2 ḥḏ qd 11
x+3
x+4 Wn-nfr (sꜣ) Pꜣ-šr-
x+1 [///]⸢..?..⸣[///]
x+2 [///] 11 silver kite.
x+3 ⸢..?..⸣
x+4 ..?.. Onnophris, (son) of Psen-⸢..?.⸣[///]
London_BM_EA-14168_S1_
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London_BM_EA-14168_S2_
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
26530 man Onnophris, son of Psen-⸢..?.⸣[///] (BM EA 14168) Wn-nfr sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-⸢..?.⸣[///] pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period -30 BCE 50 CE Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

London_BM_EA-14168_S1_
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London_BM_EA-14168_S2_
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 307398
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 388721
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307398 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14168), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.