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Ostr. London, BM EA 14089

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 14089
Publication Number O. Brit. Mus. Copt. 1, pl. 90/4
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 1875 and 1875
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 except for the upper, where the rim is almost intact.

Text Basic Information

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) Unknown amount of text is missing due to the fragmentary nature of the piece, also the ink is somewhat faded, and on convex the surface is damaged, chipped.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Well-readable, neat hand, codex script tendencies, esp. T and Psi.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4+x 5+x
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 100 97+x
Column Height (in mm) 45 45+x
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Wine account. Numbers are written out as words, and probably ⲕⲟⲉⲓⲥ "a vessel for liquids" is mentioned.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
1ⲡⲗⲟⲅⲟⲥ ⲛ︦ⲛ︦ⲏⲣ︦ⲡ
2ⲙⲁⲁⲃϣⲙⲏⲛⲉ ⲟⲉⲓⲥ
3ⲯⲓⲧⲉ ⲛⲧⲟⲧⲥ︦
4ⲙⲁⲁⲃϣⲟⲙⲧ
convex
1ⲧ ⲛ︦ⲕⲟⲉⲓⲥ ⲙ︦
2ⲙ︦ⲡϫⲱⲗⲉ
3ⲉⲟⲣⲧⲏⲥ
concave
1The account of wine:
2thirty-eight vessels (?)
3nine as well,
4thirty-three ...
convex
1(...) vessels of (...)
2at the vintage
3(...) of the feast (?)

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307723
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 82854
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307723 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14089), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.