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Collection | London, British Museum |
Inventory Number | Ostr. London, BM EA 12184 |
Publication Number | O.Brit.Mus.Copt. I, 83/4 |
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] |
Type of Discovery | purchase Certainty: |
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. |
Localization of Text on Object | two-sided | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Unknown amount of text missing probably on the left and at the bottom. The ink is very faded on concave. | |
Script, Primary | Coptic | |
Language, Primary | Coptic | |
Comments on Handwriting | Cursive document hand on convex side, concave is very difficult to see. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 4+x | 2+x |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 36 | 45+x |
Column Height (in mm) | 30 | 18+x |
Height of Line / Letter |
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Summary of Content | Numbers and occasions/times are mentioned, and oil - recipe? Prescription? |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium) |
Multilingualism | Script = Language Monolingual |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||
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DatasetID | 307741 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 82819 |
Author | Andrea Hasznos |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307741 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12184), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos. |