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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 |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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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 |
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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. |