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Collection | London, British Museum |
Inventory Number | Ostr. London, BM EA 14108 |
Publication Number | O. Brit. Mus. Copt. 1, pl. 51/4 |
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 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 1875 and 1875 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Chester, Greville John Certainty: |
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) | Junker, Hermann Certainty: |
Object Type | ostracon |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Broken off on all sides except on the top, which is the rim of the vessel. |
Localization of Text on Object | concave/convex (inside/outside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | On the convex side the ink and letters are quite well-preserved, on the concave side the ink is very faded and the letters hard to read. | |
Script, Primary | Coptic | |
Language, Primary | Coptic | |
Comments on Handwriting | Convex and concave are two different hands. Convex: practised document hand with thin lines; concave: thicker lines, shorter letters. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 4 | 7 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 70 | 70+x |
Column Height (in mm) | 40 | 60 |
Height of Line / Letter |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | On the convex side the end of a hire-payment document (contract, agreement?) can be seen: "I am letting out for hire (...) twenty (...) of Khoiak (...)" The text on the concave side is unclear: it is the beginning of a document signalled by the cross at the beginning of line 1. In ll.4 and 6 the name Johannes stands. Maybe a list of some sort? |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: ) |
Multilingualism | Script = Language Monolingual |
Gender | Man Woman |
Comment on Gender | in the hire agreement the lessee seems to be a woman ("to you" 2nd person singular feminin) |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
15180 | man | Johannes A | ⲓⲱⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ | Coptic |
DatasetID | 307720 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 82694 |
Author | Andrea Hasznos |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307720 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14108), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos. |