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Ostr. London, BM EA 12176

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 12176
Publication Number O.Brit.Mus.Copt. I, 22/3
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

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 on all sides except for one where a small part of the rim can be seen.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object two-sided
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The ink is partly rubbed off/faded, the surface is stained. Probably not much of the text is missing. Names.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Two hands: on convex one, a practised document hand, on concave probably this same hand and another, which is writing book-script letters.
Comments on Text Layout On the concave side there is one line perpendicular to the other two.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2 3
Quantity of Columns 1 2
Line Lenght (in mm) 85 x+55
Column Height (in mm) 26 20
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • scientific
  • scientific | writing exercise
Summary of Content Does not seem to be a name list used for accounting, wages or the like. Probably rather a writing practice. convex: Eiaphetes; Mena and Jako(b); concave: (..)lamon; (Joh)annes, Eisit(orus?); (Joha)nnes, Menas
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ⳁ ⲉⲓⲁⲫⲉⲧⲏⲥ
2ⲙⲏⲛⲁ ⲙⲛ︦ ⲓⲁⲕⲱ
concave
1ⲗⲁⲙⲱⲛ
2ⲓⲱϩⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ ⲉⲓⲥⲓⲧ
2ⲓⲱϩⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ ⲙⲏⲛⲁⲥ

convex
1Eiaphetes
2Mena and Jaco(b)
concave
1(...)lamon
2(Joh)annes, Eisit(oros?)
3(Joha)nnes, Menas

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307748
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 82578
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307748 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12176), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.