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Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 142

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy estate, private collection John Bankes
Inventory Number Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 142
Publication Number ined. descr.
Current Location Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status partly published

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:

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Broken off on all sides.

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) Remnants of 9 lines of Coptic text. Text missing on all sides, because the ostracon is fragmentary. The text is difficult to see due to the faded state of the ink.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Practised document hand.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9+x
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content The script is so faded that it is not possible to read the text. Maybe "send" is mentioned (l.4).
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text In Worp`s edition of the Bankes-ostraca only listed.
Multilingualism Script = Language

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 308331
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 699630
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308331 (= Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 142), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.