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| Inventory Number | Vessel Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum 916.1.364 |
| Publication Number | lamp Hayes 504 |
| Current Location | Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum |
| Publication Status | published |
| 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 Type | vessel |
| Dating of Object | Mediaeval Coptic period, 5th-6th century |
| Dating | between 400 and 600 |
| Criteria for Dating | palaeography |
| Range of Preservation | complete |
| State of Preservation | handle missing |
| Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
| Inks and Pigments | other | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | handle missing | |
| Script, Primary | Coptic | |
| Language, Primary | Coptic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | inscription on oil lamp, printed in clay | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 1 | |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | |
| Modern Title | inscription on oil lamp |
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| Summary of Content | Inscription on oil lamp. The object is a typical pilgrims` token made, used and sold in and around pilgrim sites, such as that of Abu Mina. The inscription also suggests that its user was hoping for divine help by buying the small oil lamp and praying. |
| Location of Composition | Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text | corr. text is coptic, not greek! |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Religion | Christianity |
| Comment on Religion | christogramm |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | |||||||||
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| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| 400 CE 600 CE | palaeographical dating; |
| Toronto_ROM_916.1.364_ |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| DatasetID | 311142 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Author | Ruth Duttenhöfer; Andrea Hasznos |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 311142 (= Vessel Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum 916.1.364), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Andrea Hasznos. |
