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Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 121

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy estate, private collection John Bankes
Inventory Number Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 121
Publication Number ined. descr.
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Publication Status unpublished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
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation too faded for determining the character of the text Broken off on all sides
Comments on Object Worp. Klass, was mentioned in his book that these ostracon is written in Arabic, but its probably Greek. the surface is very dark and the writing difficult to see - one side

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave (inside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) illegible, no transcript
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Text Layout The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon

 

Text Content

Modern Title Unspecified text
Text Types
  • documentary | order to arrest
Summary of Content too faded for determining the character of the text
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: unknown)
Comments on Text no transcript illegible
Multilingualism Monolingual

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307795
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 699619
Author Ahmed Kamal, Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307795 (= Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 121), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal, Ruth Duttenhöfer.