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Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 149

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy estate, private collection John Bankes
Inventory Number	Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 149
Publication Number	O.Bankes 88 descr.
Current Location	Wimborne Minster, Kinston Lacy
Publication Permission Status	no permission for publication necessary
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:
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 left

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 left
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 of a letter
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Currently unknown)
Text Types	documentary | letter
Summary of Content	Fragment of a letter.
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
27795	man	Praxes?	Πράξου	Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				100 CE 199 CE	palaeographical dating;

 

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Literature

• Worp, K. A., The Bankes ostraka from a box at Kingston Lacy: The Greek Texts (2016). (no. 88)

 

DatasetID	309234
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	699562
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.bankes;;88
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309234 (= Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 149), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.