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| Collection | Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy estate, private collection John Bankes |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 203 |
| 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| Publication Status | unpublished |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 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) | Ink and thus letters rubbed off in several places; some ink stains existed. | |
| 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 | One word appears in the upper right corner, followed by a medium space, and finally the main text, which has no margins on the sides but a medium margin at the bottom. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 7 | |
| 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 for payment or delivery good wool and fur on ostraca. |
| Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: unknown) |
| Comments on Text | Dots aren't used. |
| Multilingualism | Script = Language Monolingual |
| Religion | unknown |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Arabic Period | 21 AH | 641 CE | Based on the paleography.; |
| DatasetID | 307799 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 699657 |
| Author | Ahmed Kamal |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 307799 (= Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 203), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal. |
