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| Collection | London, British Museum |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. London, BM EA 12464 |
| Current Location | magazine |
| Publication Permission Status | (unknown) |
| Publication Status | published |
| 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 12 12 1882 and 12 12 1882 |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Rev Greville John Chester Certainty: high |
| Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) | Junker, Hermann Certainty: high |
| Object Type | ostracon |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 75 mm | 104 mm | 10 mm |
| Range of Preservation | complete |
| State of Preservation | Complete. |
| Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
| 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 right-aligned text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with only a broader lateral margin at the right side. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 5 | 0 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 80 | 0 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 60 | 0 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 80 x 60 | 0 |
| Modern Title | list of slaves connected with payment |
| Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | List of slaves, one female, connected with payment. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man Woman |
| Comment on Gender | - Activity of woman: beneficiary / deliverer of payment - Identifier of woman: none |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 Suggestion J. Moje. Wångstedt, Demotische Ostraka ptol-röm (1969), no. 23 completes here <ḥḏ>. Cf. Ostr Oxf Ashm D.P. 306. Aso for the following lines, the reading by J. Moje is ḥḏ dbn instead of ḥḏ by Wångstedt. 2 The sum counts the amounts of money paid by the persons mentioned in lines 2 – 4. The connction with the first line is not clear. |
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 8330 | man | Bienchis (EA 12464) | By-Ꜥnḫ (EA 12464) | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Roman Period | -30 BCE 211 CE | Dating by palaeography.; |
| London_BM_EA-12464_S1_ |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| London_BM_EA-12464_S2_ |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| DatasetID | 307417 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 51676 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 307417 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12464), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
