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Ostr. London, BM EA 12183

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 12183
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Publication Status unpublished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 top and right.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Unknown amount of text is missing on top and on the right. The ink is partially rubbed off, at the bottom stained.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting A good document hand, ligatures are not present, superlinear stroke is used.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 115
Column Height (in mm) 54

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Too little text to interpret fully. Writer is ready to go to addressee (?), something urgent/important is mentioned.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ⲕ ⲉ̣ⲧ̣ⲃ̣ⲉ̣
2ⲥ̣ ⲛⲁⲓ ⲛⲧⲁⲃⲱⲕ· ⲙ︦ⲡⲉⲓ
3ⲛⲁⲅⲕⲁⲓⲟⲛ ⲙ︦ⲡⲉⲕⲟⲩⲱϣ
4ⲉ̣ϣ̣ⲱ̣ⲡ̣ⲉ̣ ⲕⲥ︦ⲡⲟϥⲧ︦ ⲁⲛϫⲟⲣ
5ⲧ̣ⲁⲕⲉ ⲛⲁⲓ ⲛ︦ⲧⲁⲃⲱⲕ·
convex
1... about ...
2... to me and I shall go. This (...)
3urgent/important, of your desire (or you didn`t want) (...)
4if (?) you are (not?) at leisure (...)
5...to me and I shall go.
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Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 307742
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 388597
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307742 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12183), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.