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Ostr. London, BM EA 12192

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 12192
Publication Number O. Brit.Mus. Copt. I pl.21/2
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 1878 and 1878
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 Broken off on all sides. Surface is stained with a whitish substance.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object two-sided
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Ink on the concave side is very faded, difficult to read. The surface on both sides is stained.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Practised document hand.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6 6
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 42 x+42+y
Column Height (in mm) 56 x+56+y
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • religious-literary
  • religious-literary | Christian
  • religious-literary | Christian | prayer
Summary of Content (...) my soul (...), as my soul (...), my soul is elevated, (...) my soul blesses (...)
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Comments on Text Might be a prayer or a hymn.
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ⲧⲁⲯⲩⲭⲏ ⲛⲱ
2ⲉⲣⲉⲧⲁⲯⲩⲭⲏ
3ⲧⲁⲯⲩⲭⲏ ϫⲓⲥⲉ
4ⲧⲁⲯⲩⲭⲏ ⲥⲙⲟⲩ
5ⲧⲁⲯⲩⲭⲏ ⲥⲙⲟⲩ
convex
1(...) my soul ...
2(...) as my soul
3(... my s)oul is elevated
4(... my s)oul blesses
5(...my sou)l blesses
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Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307733
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 388605
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307733 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12192), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.