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| Collection | London, British Museum |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. London, BM EA 12158 |
| Publication Number | ined. |
| Current Location | London, British Museum |
| 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| Publication Status | unpublished |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] |
| Type of Discovery | purchase Certainty: high |
| Finder (= First Purchaser) | Chester, Greville John Certainty: high |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | purchase |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Chester, Greville John Certainty: high |
| Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) | Junker, Hermann Certainty: high |
| Object Type | ostracon |
| Dating of Object | Graeco-Roman > Coptic |
| Dating | between 500 and 700 |
| Criteria for Dating | paleography and possible identification of sender with a person in the Patermoughis archive |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | Broken off on the right. |
| 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 the right. The ink is fairly well preserved, one bit abraded. | |
| Script, Primary | Greek | |
| Language, Primary | Greek, Ancient | |
| Comments on Handwriting | Practised document hand, cursive with some ligatures. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 4 | |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 62 | |
| Column Height (in mm) | 48 | |
| Line Distance | 62+x x 48 | |
| Modern Title | letter |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | beginning of a letter from Terouterous to Iohannes? contents not recognizable. The name Terouterous is attested in the Patermouthis-archive. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text | ok. the name Terouterous is attesed in papyri belonging to the Patermouthis archive: MChr. 361, 3 und 20; P,Lond. V, 1722, 25; P.München I, 8, 17, cf. Quaegebeur* |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Religion | unknown |
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| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 31895 | man | Ioannes (Patermouthis archive?) | Ἰω[άννῃ? | Hebrew, Ancient |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Byzantine (Coptic) Period | 500 CE 700 CE | paleography, attestation of name Terouterous in the Patermouthis archive; |
| London_BM_EA-12158_S1_ |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| London_BM_EA-12158_S2_ |
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| Reserved Copyright |
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID | 307749 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 388583 |
| Author | Andrea Hasznos, Ruth Duttenhöfer |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 307749 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12158), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos, Ruth Duttenhöfer. |
