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Ostr. London, BM 12480

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	London, British Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. London, BM 12480
Current Location	magazine \| ostraca depository
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	unpublished

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	purchase Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Chester, Greville John Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	unknown
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 15 6 1876 and 15 106 1876
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Chester, Greville John Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Script, Primary	Demotic
Language, Primary	Demotic
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines		0
Quantity of Columns		0
Line Lenght (in mm)		0
Column Height (in mm)		0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance		0

Text Content

Modern Title	ostracon with unknown content
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
					Date currently unclear.;

Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	311717
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 311717 (= Ostr. London, BM 12480), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.