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Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 17

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Metadata

Collection

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Publication Status unpublished

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 (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

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

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) 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

 

Text Content

Modern Title Order for payment or delivery
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | Order for payment or delivery
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1بسم الله الرحمن الرحــيم
2الى عبد الله ٮـ
3ادفع الى محمد
convex
1In the name of God, the merciful, the compass[ionate]
1To ʿAbdallāh b [///]
1Pay to Muḥammad [///]
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
15800 man Muḥammad محمد Arabic

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Arabic Period 21 AH 641 CE Based on the paleography.;

 

Literature

 

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.