Ostr. Paris, Louvre AF 12555

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Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre AF 12555
Publication Number	Etudes coptes VII 30
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Clermont-Ganneau, Charles Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object Type	ostracon
Dating of Object	5-7th cent. CE
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Broken off at the bottom and probably on top.

Localization of Text on Object	convex/concave (outside/inside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The ink is faded/rubbed off in some places, surface is occasionally chipped, a smaller part broken off.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	A practised but not very neat documentary hand. With some ligatures. Trema is used.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6	5
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Height of Line / Letter

Text Types	documentary documentary \| dept instrument
Summary of Content	Debt acknowledgement. Allamon acknowledges to owe Praipositos and is willing to pay it back without dispute.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	The meaning and precise function of the title of Allamon, stolarche, originally commander of a fleet is somewhat uncertain in these late antique documents, see Bacot, S. - Heurtel, Ch., "Ostraca coptes dÈlephantine au Musee du Louvre", Etudes coptes VII, Montpellier 1999, 32-34.
Multilingualism	Monolingual
Gender	Man
Religion	Christianity

Transcription

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1	I, Allamon
2	son of Johannes
3	Allamon, the stolarches of ¹stolarche, stolarches (Gr) in this case is probably an official in charge of river traffic.
4	Elephantine, I acknowledge
5	and I write that I am in debt
6	to Praipositos.

¹ stolarche, stolarches (Gr) in this case is probably an official in charge of river traffic.

concave

1	Without dispute
2	and any (discussion)
3	???
4	I am writing this document (ostracon)
5	I am witness, month (...)

Louvre AF_12555_2_S2_0

Louvre AF_12555_1_S1_0

Louvre AF_12555_S1_002

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Places (read out from edition)

ⲉⲓ̈ⲏⲃⲉ (places.xml#s3)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
17565	man	Allamon, son of Johannes Allamon	ⲁⲗⲗⲁⲙⲱⲛ ⲡϣⲛⲓⲱⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ ⲁⲗⲗⲁⲙⲱⲛ	Coptic

Louvre AF_12555_2_S2_0

Louvre AF_12555_1_S1_0

Louvre AF_12555_S1_002

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DatasetID	308335
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	85008
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308335 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre AF 12555), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.