Ostr. London, BM EA 14173

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Collection	London, British Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. London, BM EA 14173
Publication Number	CE 85 p. 369-371
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: low
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1876 and 1876
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Chester, Greville John Certainty:

Object Type	ostracon
Dating of Object	Coptic
Dating	between 500 and 699
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Broken off on all sides except for the upper, where the rim is almost intact.

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	An unknown amount of text is missing on three sides, not on top.
Script, Primary	Greek
Script, additional A	(none)
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Language, additional A	(none)
Comments on Handwriting	Practised, cursive document hand with ligatures and abbreviations.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9+x
Quantity of Columns	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	109
Column Height (in mm)	100

Modern Title	Account of wheat
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| account
Summary of Content	Persons, sometimes together with their professions, and amounts of wheat are enumerated. Petermouthis actuarios? is mentioned
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Basically Greek, with one Coptic Hori.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	first published as Coptic, new ed. in CE 85, 369-371 as Greek.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Christianity
Comment on Religion	christian names

Transcription

Translation

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1	-?- ρος Να̣ρσ? σίτου (ἀρτάβη) α ̣
2	-?- ϩαρωνχ ἀρχιδιάκονος σίτου (ἀρτάβαι) β
3	-?- Ἰωτ Χαλ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ μέτρα β
4	-?- Πατερμοῦθις ἀκτουά̣ριος σίτου (ἀρτάβαι) ξθ
5	-?- ̣ γ Κοσμᾶ μέτρα ς
6	-?- σί(του) (ἀρτάβαι) ̣ ̣ πορταρήσιος σίτου (ἀρτάβαι) -?-
7	-?- σίτου (ἀρτάβαι) δ
8	-?- σίτου (ἀρτάβαι) ̣
9	-?- ς σίτου (ἀρτάβαι) ̣ μέτρα ̣ -?-

convex

1	--- -ros, son of Nars---?, of wheat, art. 1
2	--- Horounchios, the archdeacon, of wheat, 2 art.
3	--- Iot, son of Chal---, 2 metra
4	--- Patermouthis, the actuarios, of wheat 69 art.
5	--- 3 Kosmas 6 metra
6	--- of wheat ? art. the portarensis, of wheat ---
7	--- of wheat 4 art.
8	--- of wheat ? art.
9	--- of wheat ? art., ? metra

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
30710	man	---ros , son of Nars---? (byz. account)	---ρος Να̣ρσ?	Coptic

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				500 CE 699 CE	palaeographical dating;

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DatasetID	309346
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	82845
Author	Andrea Hasznos, Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309346 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14173), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos, Ruth Duttenhöfer.