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Ostr. London, BM 41633

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM 41633
Publication Number O. Brit. Mus. Copt. 1, 146/20
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status 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]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution donation
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1905 and 1905
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Evans, John
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Broken off on top and right with text missing.

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) Text missing on top and right. The ink is fairly well preserved.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting A cursive but well-readable document hand, N is unusual.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+8
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 60
Column Height (in mm) 90

 

Text Content

Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Fragmentary tax receipt with date (mostly missing unfortunately) and scribe+witness, Daniel.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ⲉϥⲥϩⲁⲓ̈ ⲛ
2ϩⲙⲧⲣⲉϫⲉ
3ⲛ︦ⲧⲟⲟⲧⲕ︦ ⲙ︦ⲡ
4ⲛ︦ⲧⲣⲟⲙⲡⲉ ⲇⲉⲕⲁⲧⲏ
5ⲛ︦ϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ
6ⲓ︦ⲛ︦ⲇ︦,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛ= ⲇⲁⲛⲓⲏⲗ
7ⲁⲓ̈ⲥϩⲁⲓ̈ ϯⲃⲗϫⲉ
8ϯ ⲟ ⲙ︦ⲙⲁⲣⲧⲩⲣⲟⲥ
convex
1(...) who is writing to (...)
2after receiving (...)
3from you as (...)1Probably a tax type was present here, for a certain year, cf. next line.
4for the year t(en?...)
5the days. Written (...)
6indiction 10 (?), Daniel (...)
7I have written this os(tracon)
8I am witness (...)

1 Probably a tax type was present here, for a certain year, cf. next line.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
15825 man Daniel ⲇⲁⲛⲓ[ⲏⲗ] Coptic

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 308356
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 82858
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308356 (= Ostr. London, BM 41633), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.