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Collection | London, British Museum |
Inventory Number | Ostr. London, BM EA 12131 |
Publication Number | ined. |
Current Location | magazine |
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Publication Status | unpublished |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] |
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: |
Object Type | ostracon |
Dating of Object | Coptic |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Broken off on all sides, except for one where the rim is. |
Localization of Text on Object | two-sided | |
Text-Localization, Addendum | convex and concave | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Although the text is basically undecipherable, it is visible that text is missing on three sides on both convex and concave. The rim is intact. The ink is greatly rubbed, the surface dark. | |
Script, Primary | Coptic | |
Language, Primary | Coptic | |
Comments on Handwriting | Very cursive document hand with ligatures. Due to script and surface extremely difficult to read. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 9 | 6 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 40 | 40+x |
Column Height (in mm) | 50 | x+50+y |
Height of Line / Letter |
Summary of Content | Undeterminable. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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Places (read out from edition) |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 307753 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 388579 |
Author | Andrea Hasznos |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307753 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12131), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos. |