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unpublished |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. |
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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 |
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Text Content
Text
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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previousely unpublished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. |
