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Collection | Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy estate, private collection John Bankes |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 49 |
Publication Number | ined. descr. |
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Publication Status | unpublished |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: high |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | Bankes, William John Certainty: high |
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: high |
Object Type | ostracon |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Incomplete. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Heavily faded. | |
Script, Primary | Demotic | |
Script, additional A | Greek | |
Language, Primary | Demotic | |
Language, additional A | Greek, Ancient | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The remnants of the text are placed on the right half of the pothsherd, the Greek line on the left side. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 7(?) | 9 |
Quantity of Columns | 1(?) | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 0 | |
Column Height (in mm) | 0 | |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | (unclear) | 0 |
Modern Title | ostracon with currently unknown text |
Ancient Archives | unclear |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Ostracon with currently unknown text. totally illegible text. One Greek line with Επιπ "Epeiph"? |
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) | One Greek line with date(?). Connection between Demotic and Greekremains unclear. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Comments on Text | no transcript illegible |
Multilingualism | Bilingual Script = Language |
Comment on Gender | (unknown) |
Comment on Religion | (unknown) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
8060 | not applicable | (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) | (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) | (none) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Roman Period | -30 BCE 211 CE | Dating by palaeography.; |
DatasetID | 308325 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 699584 |
Author | Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek) [publ. by Brian Muhs in prep.] |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 308325 (= Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 49), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek) [publ. by Brian Muhs in prep.]. |