Ostr. London, BM EA 12454

Collection	London, British Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. London, BM EA 12454
Publication Number	ined.
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	unpublished

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 1878 and 1878
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Chester, Greville John Certainty:
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Junker, Hermann Certainty:

Localization of Text on Object	concave (inside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Unknown amount of text missing, very little remains. The ink is well preserved.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Neat and practised hand, no ligatures seen.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines		x+3+y
Line Lenght (in mm)		x+35+y
Column Height (in mm)		x+32+y
Height of Line / Letter

Text Types	documentary
Summary of Content	Too little to determine. In l.2: maybe ⲕⲟⲉⲓⲥ "vessel for liquids" can be seen.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)

Transcription

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concave

London_BM_EA-12454_S1_

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London_BM_EA-12454_S2_

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Places (read out from edition)

London_BM_EA-12454_S1_

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London_BM_EA-12454_S2_

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	307730
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	388639
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307730 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12454), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.