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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2684

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2684
Publication Number P.AbdalLatīf Ostraca. 3
Current Location Elephantine, excavation magazine DAI
Publication Permission Status no permission for publication necessary
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]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution excavation finds
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1969 and 2014
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty:

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating of Object The 1st-3rd AH/ 7th-9th CE centuries
Dating between 641 and 912
Criteria for Dating According to ʿAbd al-Latīf.
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Broken on the right and top.
Comments on Object Dimensions not available.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex/concave (outside/inside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Text is missing on the concave upper left side, and on the convex right and top sides.
Script, Primary Arabic
Language, Primary Arabic
Comments on Handwriting The same hand wrote on both sides. The writing isn't particularly nice, but it appears to be from a trained hand. Dots and vowels aren't used.
Comments on Text Layout There is a free space on the left side and bottom of the convex, and the only written word on the concave is in the upper left corner.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 1
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Private letter
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Part of a private letter, the remainder is a part of the usual opening, and a few words
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text No dots or vowels are used. ʿAbdal-Latīf read the word on concave twqʿ, but I think it tādfʿ.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1‮‬‬‬‬ واكرمكـ الله
2‮‬‬‬‬وزادكـ في احسانه وتوفيقه
3 سنزيد له
4 طلبوا
5‮‬‬‬‬بر
concave
1تدفع

convex
1[///] and may God show you kindness
2[and may he increase his bounty] and assistance unto thee!
3[///] we will increase, for him
4[///] they asked
5[///] ..؟..
concave
1[///] you pay [///]
3_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
4_S2_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Arabic Period 21 AH 641 CE According to ʿAbd al-Latīf, the date of this text can be placed in the 1st-3rd AH / 7th–9th CE centuries.;

 

Pictures

3_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
4_S2_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 311262
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Ahmed Kamal
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 311262 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2684), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.