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Ostr. London, British Library 12400

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12400
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Publication Status unpublished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 complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) faded text
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title List of names
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | list
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content List with names
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Πάχνουβις Κατικια-
2πισθις
3Ἀμμωνᾶς Ψενκαλε-
4ουβεσθις
5Ἁτπης Καλασίριoς
6Σεμπῶς Ψενπιηει
7βωκολη
convex
1Pachnoubis, son of? Katikia-
2pisthis
3Ammonas, son of Psenkale-
4oubesthis
5Hatpes, son of Kalasiris
6Sempos, son of Psenpieei
7Boukolos (or: herdsman?)
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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

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316326
last Change 15.08.2022
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 316326 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12400), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .