ostracon

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Object Type
Museum number: EA41345
Description: Limestone ostracon. 12 lines of text on recto and 5 lines on verso containing a financial document.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 700-750 (?)
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Henri Édouard Naville (EEF, 1903); Excavated by: Egypt Exploration Fund
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Monastery of St Phoibammon, Location of the Temple of Mentuhotep I.
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 10 centimetres; Width: 12.90 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
Bibliographic references: Biedenkopf-Ziehner 2000a / Koptische Ostraka I: Ostraka aus dem Britischen Museum in London (133-137, pl.11); Delattre 2002 / CR de O.Brit.Mus.Copt. II et O.Ashm.Copt. (p.331-32); Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources (82876) (http://www.trismegistos.org/text/82876)
Location: Not on display
Condition: fair (incomplete -badly chipped in centre)
Associated names: Named in inscription: Victor (priest); Named in inscription: Job (son of Petros); Named in inscription: Pesynthios (son of Sebetios); Named in inscription: Joseph (son of Johannes)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1904
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA41345
Registration number: 1904,1008.445
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: O.Brit.Mus.Copt. II 10 (text edition abbreviation according to Oates et al 2001)

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