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Ostr. London, BM EA 12121

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	London, British Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. London, BM EA 12121
Publication Number	ined.
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	unpublished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]
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

Object Type	ostracon
Dating of Object	Coptic
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Broken off on all sides except on the upper, the rim is intact

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)	Very little text on the small fragment. The ink is faded, especially on concave side.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Practised but not very neat docuemtn hand. Cursive with ligatures. Superlinear stroke used.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3+x	2+x
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	47	x+47+y
Column Height (in mm)	18	15+x
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Text Types	documentary
Summary of Content	Contents not to be determined. Account or letter, the word "logos" can be read.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	307754
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	388577
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307754 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12121), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.