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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0019

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0019
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 220
Current Location Elephantine, excavation magazine DAI
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) Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 500 and 599
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left, bottom and right

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave (inside)
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken at left and right
Script, Primary Coptic Cursive
Language, Primary Sahidic
Comments on Handwriting documentary, byzantine cursive
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Acknowledgement of debt
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | contract
  • documentary | dept instrument
Summary of Content Acknowledgment of debt.
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. new edit. coptic!
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
1ⲉⲓⲟⲥ ⲉⲓⲥϩⲁⲓ
2ⲣⲉⲱⲥⲧⲓ ⲛⲁⲕ
3ⲁⲧ
4...?...
concave
1(...)eios, who is writing (...)
2(...) I owe you (...)
3...?...
4...?...
0019_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_19außen_S2_001
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_19_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
500 CE 599 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

0019_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_19außen_S2_001
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_19_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 308831
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 38574
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer; Andrea Hasznos; Julia Puglisi (metadata)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308831 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0019), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Andrea Hasznos; Julia Puglisi (metadata) .