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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

 

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Literature

• Hall, H.R., Coptic and greek Texts of the Christian Period from Ostraca, Stelae, etc., in the British Museum (1905). (I, pl.22/3)
• Hasitzka, Monika & Harraler, Hermann, Neue Texte und Dokumentation zum Koptisch-Unterricht (1990). (100)

 

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.