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Ostr. London, BM EA 14082

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 14082
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Publication Status unpublished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 A thin, small fragment. Broken off on all sides.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) A small portion of the text remains, with unknown amount of text missing. Written on the outside, letters on the rib are fairly rubbed off.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting A fairly neat, practised hand with relatively wide letters. Trema is used.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+8+y
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 38
Column Height (in mm) 61

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Joseph is writing to someone (possibly 2nd person plural).
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ⳁ ⲁⲛⲟⲕ ⲓ̈ⲱⲥⲏⲫ
2
3ⲉⲓ̈ⲥϩⲁⲓ̈ ⲛⲏ
4ⲉ̣ⲙ̣ⲉⲉⲓ̈ϫ̣
5ⲟⲩ
6ϩⲙ︦ⲡⲁ
7ⲣ̣ⲟⲥ ⲙⲁⲧ
8ⲩⲁⲓ̈
convex
1I, Joseph ...
2...
3... am writing to you (? plur) ...
4...
5...
6... in my ...
7...
8...
London_BM_EA-14082_S1_
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London_BM_EA-14082_S2_
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
15165 man Yūsuf (Joseph) ⲓⲱⲥⲏⲫ Coptic

 

Pictures

London_BM_EA-14082_S1_
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London_BM_EA-14082_S2_
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 307725
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 388696
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307725 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14082), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.