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Ostr. London, British Library 12422

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12422
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Publication Status unpublished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 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 right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title account of grain, vegetables
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Account of grain and vegetables, listing names and quantities
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender woman in account for grain

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Δ̣ιοσκορᾶς κα̣ὶ̣ -?-
2Ψ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ Ψανσ(νῶτος) -?-
3(πυροῦ ἀρτάβης) ιβ´ λαχ(ανοῦ) μη´ -?-
4Ἑρμιόνης Ἰούστ(ου) (πυροῦ ἀρτάβης) ̣ ̣ -?-
5τ ̣ ̣ ̣ -?-
convex
1Dioskoras and ---
2Ps---, son of Psansnos ---
3wheat 1/12 artaba, vegetables 1/48 ---
4of Hermione, daughter of Iustus?, wheat artaba ?---
5t---
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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previousely unpublished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 316328
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 316328 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12422), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .