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Ostr. Paris, Louvre AF 12555

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre AF 12555
Publication Number Etudes coptes VII 30
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]
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

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.

Text Basic Information

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 Content

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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ϯ ⲁⲛⲟⲕ ⲁⲗⲗⲁⲙⲱⲛ
2ⲡϣⲛ︦ⲓⲱⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ ⲁⲗⲗⲁ
3ⲙⲱⲛ ⲯⲧⲱⲗⲁⲣⲭⲏⲥ ⲛ︦
4ⲉⲓ̈ⲏⲃⲉ ⲉⲓ̈ϩⲟⲙⲟⲗⲟⲅ,ϩⲟⲙⲟⲗⲟⲅⲉⲓ
5ⲉⲓ̈ⲥϩⲁⲓ̈ ⲉⲓ̈ⲭⲣⲉⲱⲥⲧⲉⲓ
6ⲛ︦ⲡⲣⲁⲓ̈ⲡⲟⲥⲓⲧⲟⲥ
concave
1ⲭⲱⲣⲓⲥ ⲗⲁⲁⲩ ⲛ︦ⲁⲛϯⲗⲟ
2ⲅⲓⲁ ⲙⲛ ϩⲱⲃ ⲛ︦ϣⲁϫⲉ
3ⲡⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ
4ⲙ ⲉⲓ̈ⲥϩⲁⲓ ϯⲃⲗ︦ϫ︦ⲉ ϯ
5ⲙ︦ⲙⲁⲣⲧ,ⲙⲁⲣⲧⲩⲣⲟⲥ ⲙⲏⲛⲟⲥ
convex
1I, Allamon
2son of Johannes
3Allamon, the stolarches of 1stolarche, stolarches (Gr) in this case is probably an official in charge of river traffic.
4Elephantine, I acknowledge
5and I write that I am in debt
6to Praipositos.

1 stolarche, stolarches (Gr) in this case is probably an official in charge of river traffic.
concave
1Without dispute
2and any (discussion)
3???
4I am writing this document (ostracon)
5I am witness, month (...)
Louvre AF_12555_2_S2_0
© 2020 Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Christian Décamps
Louvre AF_12555_1_S1_0
© 2020 Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Christian Décamps
Louvre AF_12555_S1_002
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)
  • ⲉⲓ̈ⲏⲃⲉ (places.xml#s3)
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    People mentioned in Text

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

     

    Pictures

    Louvre AF_12555_2_S2_0
    © 2020 Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Christian Décamps
    Louvre AF_12555_1_S1_0
    © 2020 Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Christian Décamps
    Louvre AF_12555_S1_002
    Reserved Copyright

     

    Literature

     

    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.