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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 |
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 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. |
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 |
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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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. |