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Ostr. London, British Library 12109

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12109
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Publication Status unpublished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 100 and 199
Criteria for Dating palaeography
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 unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for the price of wine (time oinou)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Receipt? for the value/price of wine, paid in natura?, litres are mentioned
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text name not certain
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1 A ̣ ̣ -?-
x+2θερητις̣ σερκε ̣ -?-
x+3χωριαν τιμῆς οἴνο̣υ -?-
x+4λιτρῶν ιγ ̣ χα? ̣ -?-
x+5Φαωφ̣ι -?-
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1A---
x+2theretis ---
x+3place for the price of wine ---
x+4for 13 litres ---
x+5Phaophi ---
BriLib_ostracon_12109_
Reserved Copyright
BL_12109r_ir_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
BriLib_ostracon_12109_
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BL_12109v_ir_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
100 CE 199 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

BriLib_ostracon_12109_
Reserved Copyright
BL_12109r_ir_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
BriLib_ostracon_12109_
Reserved Copyright
BL_12109v_ir_S2_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316292
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 316292 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12109), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .