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Ostr. London, BM EA 12193

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 12193
Current Location London, British Museum
Publication Status unpublished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]
Type of Discovery find or purchase
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) (unknown)
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution purchase
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:

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 500 and 700
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at all sides

Text Basic Information

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) broken at all sides
Script, Primary Greek or Coptic
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient or Coptic
Comments on Handwriting documentary, byzantine cursive, hand unknwon
Comments on Text Layout 4 lines on one side and 6 lines on the other
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+5+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title document of incertain content
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content document of incertain content
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text no transcript
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
London_BM_EA-12193_S1_
Reserved Copyright
London_BM_EA-12193_S2_
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
500 CE 700 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

London_BM_EA-12193_S1_
Reserved Copyright
London_BM_EA-12193_S2_
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 307732
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 388606
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307732 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12193), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.