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Ostr. London, British Library 12105

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. London, British Library 12105
Publication Number	ined
Current Location	London, British Library
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned
Publication Status	unpublished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	between 113 and 136
Criteria for Dating	date according to scribe's time of activity
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at top and right

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	broken at top and right
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Palachemis
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	letter
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Palachemis scribe
Text Types	documentary documentary | letter
Summary of Content	Letter of incertain content. Written by Palachemis.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion, further	unknown

 

Text

 

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
				113 CE 136 CE	date according to scribe's time of activity: Trajan 17 - Hadrian 20;

 

Pictures

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	316289
last Change	19.08.2022
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 316289 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12105), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .