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Ostr. London, British Library 12100

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12100
Publication Number ined
Current Location London, British Library
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine / Syene () [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
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating of Object Byzantine (Coptic) Period
Dating between 500 and 700
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken on all sides
Comments on Object intact base of a vessel

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave (inside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken on all sides
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown, practised chancery hand
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 10
Quantity of Columns 1
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Account of grain
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Account of wheat and barley
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text no transcript
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Byzantine (Coptic) Period 500 CE 700 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

BriLib_ostracon_12100_
Reserved Copyright
BriLib_ostracon_12100_
Reserved Copyright
BL_12100r_ir_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
BL_12100v_ir_S2_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316286
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 316286 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12100), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .