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Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 163

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Collection

Collection	Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy estate, private collection John Bankes
Inventory Number	Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 163
Publication Number	O.Bankes 55
Current Location	Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy
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]
Type of Discovery	find (unspecified) Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Bankes, William John Certainty:
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
Dating	between 100 and 199
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at top

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)	broken at top
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Fragment
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Isidoros, countersigner (bankes 55)
Text Types	documentary
Summary of Content	Document concerning the payment of barley; with subscript of Isidoros
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

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x	-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
x+1	[ -?- κλ]ηρονομ[ -?- ]
x+2	[ -?- ] ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ πραγματ[ -?- ]
x+3	[ -?- ]τον καὶ κριθῆς ἕ̣κτ̣ο̣ν̣ ἀρτά̣β̣[ -?- τεσσα-]
x+4	ρακαιεικοστόν.
x+5	(ἔτους(?)) ζ, Θὼθ δ̣ (hand 2) Ἰσίδωρος

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x
x+1	--- heirs? ---
x+2	--- difficulties ---
x+3	--- and barley one sixth artaba --- one
x+4	twentyfourth.
x+5	Year 7, Thoth 4. (hand 2) Isidoros.

55_O_Bankes_inv_163_S1

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
27255	man	Isidoros, countersigner (bankes 55)	Ἰσίδωρος	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				100 CE 199 CE	palaeographical dating; might even be 3rd cent., date in text not conclusive;

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55_O_Bankes_inv_163_S1

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Literature

Worp, K. A., The Bankes ostraka from a box at Kingston Lacy: The Greek Texts (2016). (no. 55)

DatasetID	308579
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	699528
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.bankes;;55
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308579 (= Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 163), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.