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Collection | London, British Museum |
Inventory Number | Ostr. London, BM EA 14111 |
Current Location | London, British Museum |
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Publication Status | unpublished |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 District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Discovery | (unknown) Certainty: |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | (unknown) Certainty: |
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
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: |
Object Type | ostracon |
Dating of Object | The 1st-3rd AH/ 7th - 9th CE centuries |
Dating | between 801 and 1000 |
Criteria for Dating | Based on the paleography. |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Broken off on all sides. |
Comments on Object | Painted. 4 lines - one side. |
Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Small parts from the right and upper sides are missing, and unknown missing amount in the bottom, but it is most likely a large part. Ink is faded/rubbed in some places. | |
Script, Primary | Arabic | |
Language, Primary | Arabic | |
Comments on Handwriting | Not a very neat handwriting, but seems to be from a practiced hand. Dots and vowels aren't used. | |
Comments on Text Layout | The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon on the convex side. concave side is blank. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 4 | |
Quantity of Columns | 1 |
Modern Title | Private letter |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown [not mentioned in text]) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Part of a private letter. The surviving text is part of the usual introduction and greeting, and a few other words. |
Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: ) |
Comments on Text | Because the writer was unable to finish the last two words of the second line, he rewrote it at the beginning of the third line. |
Multilingualism | Script = Language Monolingual |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Islam |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
15950 | man | ʿAbdallāh | عبد الله | Arabic |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
21 AH | 641 CE | Based on the paleography.; |
DatasetID | 307719 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 388703 |
Author | Ahmed Kamal |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307719 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14111), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal. |