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Ostr. Paris, Louvre AF 12579

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre AF 12579
Publication Number Etudes coptes VII 23 (lower)
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 Large parts broken off on top, right and bottom.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Large portion of the text missing, only beginnings of lines preserved.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Practised and orderly hand. Trema used.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | dept instrument
Summary of Content Debt acknowledgement. A very fragmentary text, but from the remnants of the well-known formulae a debt acknowledgement is evidently recongisable. The debtor is probably Isak.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ϯ
2
3ⲛ︦ⲧ
4ⲉⲓ̈ⲧⲙⲧϩⲉ
5ⲧⲟⲓⲙⲟⲥ ⲉⲧ
6ⲭⲱⲣⲓⲥ ⲗⲁⲁⲩ ⲛ︦ⲁⲛⲧⲓⲗⲟⲅⲓⲁ
7ⲁⲛⲟⲕ ⲓ̈ⲥⲁⲕ
convex
1 (...)
2(...)
3...(...)
4if I don`t (give it back(?) ...)
5I agree to (give it back...)
6without any (dispute...)
7I, Isak (...)
Louvre AF_12579_1_S1_0
© 2020 Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Christian Décamps
Louvre AF_12579_2_S2_0
© 2020 Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Christian Décamps
Louvre AF_12579_S1_002
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
17630 man Isak B ⲓⲥ[ⲁⲕ] Coptic

 

Pictures

Louvre AF_12579_1_S1_0
© 2020 Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Christian Décamps
Louvre AF_12579_2_S2_0
© 2020 Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Christian Décamps
Louvre AF_12579_S1_002
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 308343
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 85000
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308343 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre AF 12579), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.