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Collection | Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy estate, private collection John Bankes |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 17 |
Publication Number | inedit |
Current Location | England, Private collection John Bankes |
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Publication Status | unpublished |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 | find (unspecified) Certainty: |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | Bankes, William John Certainty: |
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Elephantine |
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | old stock |
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 1815 and 1818 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: |
Object Type | ostracon |
Dating of Object | The 1st-3rd AH/ 7th - 9th CE centuries |
Dating | between 641 and 912 |
Criteria for Dating | Based on the paleography. |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Broken on all except for the upper side |
Comments on Object | 3 lines - one side |
Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Some ink stains existed, the letters are a little thick | |
Script, Primary | Arabic | |
Language, Primary | Arabic | |
Comments on Handwriting | Not a very neat handwriting, but seems to be from a practiced hand. No dots or vowels are used. | |
Comments on Text Layout | The text has a small margin on the right side, and a large margin on the top | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 3 | |
Quantity of Columns | 1 |
Modern Title | Order for payment or delivery |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown [not mentioned in text]) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Order to ʿAbdallāh for payment or delivery Something to someone called Muḥammed |
Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: ) |
Comments on Text | Dots aren't use. Ila in lines two and three was written like lām - as if there were no yāʾ |
Multilingualism | Script = Language Monolingual |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Islam |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||
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ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
15800 | man | Muḥammad | محمد | Arabic |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Arabic Period | 21 AH | 641 CE | Based on the paleography.; |
DatasetID | 307793 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 699574 |
Author | Ahmed Kamal |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307793 (= Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 17), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal. |