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Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 49

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Metadata

Collection

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Publication Status unpublished

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: 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

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Incomplete.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

Modern Title ostracon with currently unknown text
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

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)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period -30 BCE 211 CE Dating by palaeography.;

 

Literature

 

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.].