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Vessel Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum 916.1.335

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Vessel Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum 916.1.335
Publication Number	lamp SB 24, 16307 Hayes 509
Current Location	Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum
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]
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Currelly, Charles Trick Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Fayum
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Currelly, Charles Trick Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	vessel
Dating of Object	Mediaeval Coptic period, 6th-7th century
Dating	between 500 and 700
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	handle missing

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	other
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	inscription on oil lamp, printed in clay
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	1
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	inscription on oil lamp
Text Types	documentary religious | Christian
Summary of Content	inscription on oil lamp
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Christianity
Comment on Religion	Christogramm, the holy

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
32490	man	Apa Phisames (the holy, lamp)	ἄπα Φισάμου	(not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				500 CE 700 CE	palaeographical dating;

 

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Literature

• Hayes, J. W., Ancient Lamps in the Royal Ontario Museum. I: Greek and Roman Clay Lamps. A Catalogue (1980). (no. 509)
• Pleket, Henri Willy & Stroud, R. & Strubbe, J., Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 47 (2000). (2115)
• Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Hengstl, Joachim, Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XXIV (2003). (no. 16307)

 

DatasetID	309563
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	106897
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309563 (= Vessel Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum 916.1.335), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.