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Ostr. London, BM EA 14099

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	London, British Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. London, BM EA 14099
Publication Number	ined.
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	unpublished

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 1876 and 1876
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Chester, Greville John Certainty:
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Junker, Hermann Certainty:

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating of Object	Coptic
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Broken off on all sides.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex/concave (outside/inside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Unknown amount of text missing, a very small fragment. Fairly faded ink.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Seems to be a practised document hand, Pi is unusual with a bottom line as well, like a quadrat.
Comments on Text Layout	Concave side: remnants of 2-3 letters, but lines or the layout of text cannot be seen.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5+x	?
Quantity of Columns	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	64
Column Height (in mm)	56
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary | account
Summary of Content	After the cross sign which signals the beginning of a document, the word "logos" with the definite article ("the account") can be read. The rest is too faded with too few remnants to interpret.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	307721
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	388701
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307721 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14099), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.