(other) London, BM EA 9895
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
London, British Museum |
| Inventory Number |
(other) London, BM EA 9895 |
| Publication Number |
SB I 3853 |
| Current Location |
London, British Museum |
| 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 or purchase
Certainty: high |
| Finder (= First Purchaser) |
(unknown)
Certainty: high |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt |
Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Acquisition for the Intitution |
purchase |
| Date of Acquisition for the Intitution |
between 1861 and 1861 |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) |
Gadsby, John
Certainty: high |
Object
| Object Type |
(other) |
| Dating |
between 100 and 299 |
| Criteria for Dating |
palaeography |
| Range of Preservation |
complete |
| State of Preservation |
good |
| Comments on Object |
Mummy-label of Pekysis, made of sycomore fig wood, decorated on one side. |
Text Basic Information
| Localization of Text on Object |
(other) |
| Text-Localization, Addendum |
back and front of wooden label |
| Inks and Pigments |
carbon ink monochrome black |
| Range of Preservation (Text) |
complete |
| Script, Primary |
Greek |
| Language, Primary |
Greek, Ancient |
| Comments on Handwriting |
documentary, |
| Comments on Text Layout |
back drawing of Anubis? |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
4 |
1 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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| Height of Line / Letter |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
mummy label |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content |
Mummy label of Pekysis, died at the age of 46. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text |
ok |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
| Religion |
Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| Comment on Religion |
drawing of Osiris? |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | Peky-|
2 | | sis, |
3 | | in the age of |
4 | | 46 years.
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 34545 |
man |
Pekysis (mummy label) |
Πεκῦσις |
pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
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100 CE 299 CE |
palaeographical dating; |
Pictures
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Literature
| DatasetID |
310473 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
40370 |
| Papyri.info |
ddbdp/sb;1;3853 |
| Author |
Ruth Duttenhöfer |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 310473 (= (other) London, BM EA 9895), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer. |
