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| Collection | Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy estate, private collection John Bankes |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 78 |
| 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| Publication Status | unpublished |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 |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
| Object Type | ostracon |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | The upper right and the left part are broken with loss of an undetermined width. |
| Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | The script is very faded. Based on the fact that the beginning of the last two visible lines is preserved, not much is missing from the other lines. The end of the first line is preserved. | |
| Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
| Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "faded script (hieratic?)" (According to: Worp, Bankes Ostraka (2016), 96.) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | There is a broad right margin in front of the visible last lines. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 5 | |
| 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 | -1070 BCE 313 CE | According to: Trismegistos 799 BCE to 350(?); |
| DatasetID | 308421 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 699596 |
| 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 308421 (= Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 78), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |
