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