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Ostr. London, British Library 12134

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12134
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Publication Status unpublished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 500 and 700
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation (undecidable)
State of Preservation broken at lower left corner
Comments on Object broken base of a plate on the concave side

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 at lower left corner
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, Byzantine cursive, same hand as O.London British Library 14042 (Database no. 316346)
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 11
Quantity of Columns 1
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Account
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Account of incertain nature
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Christianity
Comment on Religion Christogramm

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
30255 man Ioannes, son of Theodoros Ιωάννης Θεοδώρου Greek, Ancient
30260 man Nil(ammon?), son of Ioannes Νιλ(άμμων) Ιοάννου Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
500 CE 700 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

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Reserved Copyright
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316305
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 316305 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12134), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .