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Ostr. Oxford, Private Collection Sayce X

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford, Private Collection Sayce X
Publication Number Crum ST 336
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]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation lower part is missing

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) End of the document probably missing.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Greeting and first part of a letter, "sending to north" is mentioned.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender addressee is female

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ⲙⲁⲕⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲉⲧ
2ⲥϩⲁⲓ ⲉⲁϣⲓⲛⲉ
3ⲕⲓⲣⲁ ⲕⲁⲧⲁ ⲑⲉ ⲉⲧⲁ
4ⲣϫⲟⲟⲩⲧ ⲁϩⲏⲧ ⲙⲁⲛⲡⲣⲱ
5ⲙⲉ ϣⲁϫⲉ ⲛⲉⲙⲁϥ
convex
1Makarios (it is) who
2is writing and greeting
3Kira. As you
4sent me to the north ...?...
5... speak with him
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
16055 woman Kira (Kyria) ⲕⲓⲣⲁ Coptic

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 308360
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 83654
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308360 (= Ostr. Oxford, Private Collection Sayce X), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.