Ostr. London, BM EA 14071

Collection	London, British Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. London, BM EA 14071
Publication Number	O. Brit. Mus. Copt. 1, pl. 85/2
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty:
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Chester, Greville John Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1875 and 1875
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Chester, Greville John Certainty:

Object Type	ostracon
Dating of Object	Coptic
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	From two fragments, glued together.

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	The ink is fairly well preserved. The break running across the ostracon makes some parts of the text difficult to read.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	A not very orderly hand, with ligatures. Superlinear stroke is used.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9
Quantity of Columns	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	83
Column Height (in mm)	110

Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Currently unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| dept instrument
Summary of Content	Praipositos and Petros acknowledge to owe Sikes 12 wooden seals/bricks (?). What follows is difficult to interpret.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man

Transcription

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1	And Petros ¹This is added above line 1, but should obviously follow the other personal name.
2	Prapo-
3	sitos owe
4	to Sikes
5	twelve wooden
6	small seals (or bricks?)
7	???
8	(...)-six (?) se-
9	als (or bricks). Kama +

¹ This is added above line 1, but should obviously follow the other personal name.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
2575	man	Petros	ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ	Coptic

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DatasetID	310456
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	82827
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310456 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14071), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.