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Collection | Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy estate, private collection John Bankes |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 179 |
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Publication Status | unpublished |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. |
Comments on Object | 8 lines, one side, extremely dark surface, unintelligible writing that may or may not be Arabic. |
Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Unknown amount of text is missing due to the nature of the piece, The ink is faded /rubbed in several places, thus text is difficult to see, the surface is very dark 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. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 8 | |
Quantity of Columns | 1 |
Modern Title | Unspecified text on dark ostraca. |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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Summary of Content | Unspecified text on dark ostraca. |
Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Script = Language Monolingual |
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 | 307798 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 699644 |
Author | Ahmed Kamal |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307798 (= Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 179), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal. |