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| Collection | London, British Museum |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. London, BM EA 12180 |
| Publication Number | ined. |
| Current Location | magazine |
| Publication Permission Status | permission for publication upon enquiry only |
| Publication Status | unpublished |
| 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 | Very small fragment of an ostracon, 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 on all sides. On convex a small fragment of a coherent text can be seen with regular lines, on concave only some traces of random letters (?). | |
| Script, Primary | Coptic | |
| Language, Primary | Coptic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | Seems to be a practised document hand, letters slightly leaning to the right. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 4 | |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 55 | |
| Column Height (in mm) | 33 | |
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| Summary of Content | "(...) as you want (...) to a dwelling (?) place (...)" Probably a private letter. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
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| London_BM_EA-12180_S1_ |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| London_BM_EA-12180_S2_ |
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| Reserved Copyright |
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID | 307745 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 388594 |
| Author | Andrea Hasznos |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 307745 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12180), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos. |
