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Ostr. London, BM EA 26532

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	London, British Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. London, BM EA 26532
Publication Number	O. Brit. Mus. Copt. 1, 58 pl. 44/4
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1890 and 1890
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Chester, Greville John Certainty:
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Mallon, Alexis SJ Certainty:

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating of Object	Byzantine (Coptic) Period
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Broken on all sides.
Comments on Object	with drawing

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	concave (inside)
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	There is a drawing with strong black lines on the fragment. Remnants of 3 lines of writing can be seen, only very vaguely. The ink of the drawing is much better preserved.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Cursive document hand, but very faded.
Existing Pictorial Elements	fragmentary drawing over text
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines		3
Quantity of Columns		1
Line Lenght (in mm)		x+100
Column Height (in mm)		x+35
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Text Types	documentary
Summary of Content	Vague. In the last line "to Daniel (...)oros."
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )

 

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Literature

• Hall, H.R., Coptic and greek Texts of the Christian Period from Ostraca, Stelae, etc., in the British Museum (1905). (I, p. 58 pl. 44, 4)

 

DatasetID	307715
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	82669
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307715 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 26532), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.