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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

 

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Literature

• Hall, H.R., Coptic and greek Texts of the Christian Period from Ostraca, Stelae, etc., in the British Museum (1905). (pl.21/2)

 

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.