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Ostr. Paris, Louvre AF 12561

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre AF 12561
Publication Number Etudes coptes VII 27
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 Small, fragmentary ostracon, broken off on left, right, and bottom.

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) Five fragmentary lines on concave and two fragmentary lines on convex are preserved, incomplete.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Practised document hand. Supralinear stroke used.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2 5+x
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | dept instrument
Summary of Content Debt acknowledgement? It is rather fragmentary, difficult to determine the contents. Jakob the actuary seems to be the writer. If it is a debt acknowledgement, as Monika Hasitzka (Koptische Sammelbuch 3, Nr.1391) calls it, it uses different wording than the other ones.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
1ⲓⲁⲕⲱⲃ ⲡⲁⲕⲧⲟⲩⲟⲣ,ⲁⲕⲧⲟⲩⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
2ⲥⲡⲟⲣⲧⲟⲩⲗⲟⲛ
3ⲡⲣ︦ⲕⲁⲧⲁⲫⲣⲟ,ⲕⲁⲧⲁⲫⲣⲟⲛⲉⲓ
4ⲟⲩⲥ︦ⲛ︦ⲧⲁⲍⲉ
5ⲟⲩⲟⲣ︦ϩ︦
convex
1ⲛ︦ⲣⲱⲙⲉ
2ⲙⲁⲣⲟⲩ ϯ

concave
1(...) Jakob the actuary
2(...) gift 1Meaning: gift of food or money to officials or clients. Sometimes embezzlement.
3(...) neglect
4(...) agree
5(...) remit

1 Meaning: gift of food or money to officials or clients. Sometimes embezzlement.
convex
1the people (?) (...)
2...(...)
Louvre AF_12561_1_S1_0
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Louvre AF_12561_2_S2_0
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Louvre AF_12561-1_S1_0
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Louvre AF_12561-2_S2_0
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
17675 man Jakob the actuary [ⲓⲁ]ⲕⲱⲃ ⲡⲁⲕⲧⲟⲩⲟⲣ, Coptic

 

Pictures

Louvre AF_12561_1_S1_0
© 2020 Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Christian Décamps
Louvre AF_12561_2_S2_0
© 2020 Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Christian Décamps
Louvre AF_12561-1_S1_0
Reserved Copyright
Louvre AF_12561-2_S2_0
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 308340
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 85006
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308340 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre AF 12561), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.