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Ostr. London, BM EA 14085

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	London, British Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. London, BM EA 14085
Publication Number	O. Brit. Mus. Copt. 1, pl. 19/4
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	Two fragments joined. Broken on all sides.
Comments on Object	Bottom part of a plate.

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)	The ink on both sides is rather faded, especially so on concave. An unknown amount of text is missing due to the fragmentary nature of the piece.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	A practised document hand.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+6	x+5
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	55
Column Height (in mm)	35
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary | letter
Summary of Content	"I have given a fourth to the . . . . . of the brethren."~"I have finished the oil in the fourty . . . the Great Easter."
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Religion	Christianity

 

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Literature

• Hall, H.R., Coptic and greek Texts of the Christian Period from Ostraca, Stelae, etc., in the British Museum (1905). (1 p. 26 pl. 19, 4)

 

DatasetID	307724
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	82573
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307724 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14085), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.