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Ostr. London, BM EA 14079

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 14079
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Publication Status unpublished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 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 Small triangular shaped ostracon fragment. Broken off on all sides, except at the top where the rim is. Chipped, broken.

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 few letter remnants on concave is very faded, the ink on convex is better preserved. Surface is chipped. Very little text remains, unknown amount missing.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Practised document hand, large separated letters, no ligatures seen.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4+x 1
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 80
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content Too little text remains to determine. In l.2 maybe "twelve of"?
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ⲥⲛ︦ⲛⲙ̣ⲣ
2ⲧⲥⲟⲟⲩⲥ
3ϣⲱ̣
concave
1illegible 1 line


1 illegible 1 line
convex
1(...) ...?...(...)
2(...) twelve (?)
3(...) happen/ill (?) 1Some lines are missing after that.

1 Some lines are missing after that.
concave
1illegible 1 line


1 illegible 1 line
London_BM_EA-14079_S1_
Reserved Copyright
London_BM_EA-14079_S2_
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Pictures

London_BM_EA-14079_S1_
Reserved Copyright
London_BM_EA-14079_S2_
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 307726
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 388695
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307726 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14079), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.