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Ostr. London, BM EA 12138

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 12138
Publication Number ined.
Current Location London, British Museum
Publication Status unpublished

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]
Type of Discovery find or purchase
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) (unknown)
Certainty: high
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 Graeco-Roman
Dating between 1 and 199
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top, left and bottom

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken at top, left and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+5+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragment of an account
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Fragment of an account of money
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text no transcript
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
London_BM_EA-12138_S1_
Reserved Copyright
London_BM_EA-12138_S2_
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
1 CE 199 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

London_BM_EA-12138_S1_
Reserved Copyright
London_BM_EA-12138_S2_
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 307750
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 388582
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307750 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12138), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.