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Ostr. London, British Library 14055

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14055
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Publication Status unpublished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 bottom

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 bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
Comments on Text Layout wide margins on the top and right of the ostracon
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Account of money
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | account
  • documentary | list
Summary of Content Account of money listing names and amounts of drachmas, perhaps of a family: son and daughters are mentioned
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text no transcript
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender daughters in an account of money
Religion unknown

 

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

BriLib_ostracon_14055_
Reserved Copyright
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316348
last Change 18.08.2022
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 316348 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14055), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .