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| Collection | Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy estate, private collection John Bankes |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 159 |
| 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| Publication Status | unpublished |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 |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | Broken off on all sides. |
| Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | The text was erased in the middle, and there are remains of some letters on the sides, and the bottom, unknown amount of text is missing due to the fragmentary nature of the piece, The ink has faded /rubbed in several places, making the text difficult to read. | |
| Script, Primary | Arabic | |
| Language, Primary | Arabic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | Not a very neat handwriting. | |
| Comments on Text Layout | The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon. Although the text was erased in the middle, there are remains of some letters on the sides, and the bottom. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 7 | |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Modern Title | Basmala |
| Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown [not mentioned in text]) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Basmala exist, and the rest of the text is erased in several places. |
| Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text | The only remaining two words that can be deciphered from the text are (In the name of God) in the first line. |
| Multilingualism | Script = Language Monolingual |
| Religion | Islam |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| 21 AH | 641 CE | ; |
| DatasetID | 307797 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 699636 |
| Author | Ahmed Kamal |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 307797 (= Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 159), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal. |
