Ostr. London, BM EA 14204

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Collection	London, British Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. London, BM EA 14204
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	unpublished

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 1874 and 1874
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Rev Greville John Chester Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Junker, Hermann Certainty:

Object Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Left and lower parts broken off in undetermined extent.

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The lower part and all line endings of col. II. are broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Demotic
Language, Primary	Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The right aligned columns are placed centered onto the potsherd, with unequal line length. The upper and right crotches remain uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	Col I: 9+y; Col II: 6+y	0
Quantity of Columns	2	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	90	0
Column Height (in mm)	64	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	90 x 64	0

Modern Title	list of priests on-duty
Ancient Archives	administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [lost])
Text Types	documentary \| list \| name list
Summary of Content	List of priests on duty in two columns connected with a special day (2nd of Thoth). The heading is unfortunately heavily damaged, so that the context remains unclear.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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col. I
col. I:1	¹Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. pꜣ ///
col. I:2	OK ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 2
col. I:3	Tryn
col. I:4	Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Mn (sꜣ) Pa-Ḫnsw
col. I:5	Pꜣ-ḏı͗-
col. I:6	Pꜣ-šr-pꜣ-wr sꜣ
col. I:7	Pꜣ-šr-Wsı͗r (sꜣ) Wn-nfr
col. I:8	Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t (sꜣ) Pꜣ-šr-Pꜣ--wr
col. I:9
col. II
col. II:1	Pa-H̱nm
col. II:2	Pꜣ-hb
col. II:3	OK ı͗bd 1 pr.t sw 2(?)
col. II:4	Pa-⸢..?..⸣
col. II:5	///
col. II:6	///

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
35955	man	Dorion (EA 14204)	Tryn	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Roman Period				-330 BCE 211 CE	;

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	307718
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	388733
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307718 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14204), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.