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Ostr. Leipzig, ÄMUL 7217

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Leipzig, ÄMUL 7217
Publication Number O. Lips. Copt. 7
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Finder (= First Purchaser) Steindorff, Georg
Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Two fragments put together but still fragmentary. Broken off on left and right and possibly at the bottom, chipped on top.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave/convex (inside/outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Unknown amount of text missing on left and right, possibly also at the bottom, a smaller piece probably with not too much text is chipped off on top.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting The practised, cursive document hand of David son of Mena, whose activity (as scribe and witness) we know from several ostraca from Elephantine: Ostr. Berlin P. 14791 Ostr. Berlin P. 14793 Ostr. Berlin P. 10834 Ostr. Berlin P. 14782 Ostr. Berlin P. 14781 (only witness) O. Eleph. DAIK 368 (Greek)
Comments on Text Layout Text on concave (inside) turned appr. 90° ccw.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6+x 3
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 100 x+55
Column Height (in mm) 71 36
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Quantities and measurememts are listed, the date is fragmentary, probably a 10th indiction and a 2nd day. The names Valenti(nos) and Eustathios are mentioned.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ⲥⲩⲛⲑ ⲑⲱⲑ ⲃ̣ ⲧ̣ⲏ̣ⲥ̣ ⲓ̣
2ⲡⲓⲛⲁⲕ,ⲡⲓⲛⲁⲕⲓⲁ ... ⲣ︦ⲕ︦ ⲡⲟ ⲅⲓ ⲛⲟ ⲋϡ
3ⲡⲉⲃⲱ ⲛⲟ ⲁ ⲕ,ⲕⲉⲣⲁⲧⲓⲟⲛ
4ⲡⲁⲙⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲛⲟ ⲁ ⲕ,ⲕⲉⲣⲁⲧⲓⲟⲛ ⲇ
5ⲇ ⲟⲩⲁⲗⲏⲛⲧⲓ ⲉⲩⲥⲧⲁⲑⲉⲟⲥ
6`ⲍ
concave
1ⲕ ⲫ
2ⲟⲥⲫ ⲛⲉ,
3ⲁ ⲛⲟ ⲓ̈ⲑ
convex
1With God. Thot (day) 2 of 10(th Indiktion)
2small plates myriads 120 po(lybianos) 1This word might refer to the material. makes 6 no(mismata)
3Pebo 1 no(misma), k(eration) (...)
4Pamoute 1 no(misma), 4 k(eration) (...)
5...?... Valenti(nos) (son of?) Eustathios ...

1 This word might refer to the material.
concave
3(...) 19 no(mismata) 1The rest of the text is unclear.

1 The rest of the text is unclear.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
15265 man Valentinos, son of Eustathios ⲟⲩⲁⲗⲏⲛⲧⲓ ⲉⲩⲥⲧⲁⲑⲉⲟⲥ Coptic

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 308333
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 341784
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308333 (= Ostr. Leipzig, ÄMUL 7217), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.