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Collection | Chicago, Oriental Institute |
Inventory Number | Le. Chicago OI 10552 Vo |
Publication Number | P.Abbott MarriageContracts 2 |
Current Location | Chicago Oriental Institute |
Publication Permission Status | no permission for publication necessary |
Publication Status | unpublished |
Ancient Provenance Site | Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Discovery | (unknown) Certainty: unknown |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | Mohareb Todrous Certainty: unknown |
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Luxor |
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 1920 and |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Dr. James H. Breasted Certainty: high |
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) | Nubian children Certainty: high |
Object Type | leather |
Dating of Object | Dhū l-Ḥijja 378 AH / 11th March- 9th April 989 CE |
Dating | between 989 and 989 |
Criteria for Dating | Date in the text. |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Small part in the upper left corner is torn off. |
Comments on Object | With a leather strip at the top for binding the document together when it's rolled. |
Localization of Text on Object | verso | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | The ink has deteriorated into a grey tint or faded significantly in some areas. | |
Script, Primary | Arabic | |
Script, additional A | Coptic | |
Language, Primary | Arabic | |
Language, additional A | Coptic | |
Comments on Handwriting | The text is written in naskhi, by a flowing hand with a thin pen. It appears to be the work of a skilled hand. No dots or vowels are used. | |
Comments on Text Layout | The verso, which according to Abbot is the leather's flesh side, features one line of Coptic on top, followed by the text after considerable space; the lower half remains blank. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 16 | |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | |
Height of Line / Letter |
Modern Title | Receipt for the bridal gift |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown [not mentioned in text]) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Acknowledged from the wife that she released her husband from all the balance due her of the deferred instalment of her dowry which had been contracted, and also that she give her house in Aswan to him. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Comments on Text | Two generations of the same family, with forty-two Hijrah years between the recto and verso writing. In the Coptic line at the top we can read the wife`s name as [A]paleianta and then the following words are very difficult to interpret. This female name can easily be of Nubian origin. Possibly an ind(iction) 5 stands at the end of the line (Ruth Duttenhöfer and Andrea Hasznos). |
Multilingualism | Script = Language Bilingual |
Gender | Man Woman |
Comment on Gender | - Activity of woman: contractant in marriage contract - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man |
Religion | Islam |
Religion, further | Christianity |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
15620 | man | Al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Rizḳallāh b. Muḥammad | الحسن بن احمد بن رزق الله بن محمد | Arabic |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Fatimid caliphate | 378 | Dhū l-Ḥijja | 989 March 12 CE | According to the date In the text. This date is in the period of the second Fatimid caliphs, Abū Manṣūr Nizār al-'Azīz bi-Allāh (975–996 CE).; |
DatasetID | 309573 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 463571 |
Author | Ahmed Kamal |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 309573 (= Le. Chicago OI 10552 Vo), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal. |