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| Collection | Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy estate, private collection John Bankes |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 11 |
| Current Location | Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy |
| 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| Publication Status | unpublished |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: unknown |
| Finder (= First Purchaser) | Bankes, William John Certainty: unknown |
| 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 | The upper part and the right part are lost to an undetermined height. |
| Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | The beginning of every line is lost. Only some signs of two lines are preserved. In large part, the signs are faded. | |
| Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
| Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "hieratic" (According to: Klaas Worp,Bankes Ostraka (2016), 95). | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | x+2 | |
| Modern Title | Letter |
| Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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| Summary of Content | The content of this letter is incomprehensible due to its fragmentary state and due to the faded text. |
| Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Third Intermediate Period - Roman Period | According to: Trismegistos 799 BCE to 350(?); |
| DatasetID | 308420 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 699571 |
| Author | Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 308420 (= Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 11), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |
