Ostr. London, BM EA 12191
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
London, British Museum |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. London, BM EA 12191 |
| Publication Number |
ined. |
| Current Location |
magazine |
| Publication Permission Status |
permission for publication upon enquiry only |
| 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unpublished |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] |
| 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 left (convex) and at bottom, upper left corner chipped off. Concave side is darkened. |
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) |
But a few letters visible on both sides, but probably not too much text missing. |
| Script, Primary |
Coptic |
| Language, Primary |
Coptic |
| Comments on Handwriting |
Cursive hand, corrects himself. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
2 |
1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
35 |
35+x |
| Column Height (in mm) |
22 |
7 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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Text Content
| Text Types |
- documentary
- documentary | account
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| Summary of Content |
Convex seems to be an account of some sort. Concave is the beginning of a document, but perhaps not completed. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: ) |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
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Literature
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID |
307734 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
388604 |
| Author |
Andrea Hasznos |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 307734 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12191), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos. |
