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Ostr. London, British Library 14135

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14135
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Publication Status unpublished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 1 and 200
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left

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) decoration of the label missing in the left and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
Comments on Text Layout Painted label with four lines of text.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Label (painted)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • Documentary | Jar Label
Summary of Content Painted label in the shape of a mummy tag on an ostracon, displaying Greek writing
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1τέλος
2ἔχει
3Λ̣ι̣μην̣-
4α̣ιος
convex
1no translation
BriLib_ostracon_14135_
Reserved Copyright
BriLib_ostracon_14135_
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
1 CE 200 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

BriLib_ostracon_14135_
Reserved Copyright
BriLib_ostracon_14135_
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316353
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 316353 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14135), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .