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Collection | Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3333 |
Publication Number | P.AbdalLatīf Ostraca. 4 |
Current Location | Elephantine, excavation magazine DAI |
Publication Permission Status | no permission for publication necessary |
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] |
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: high |
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 all sides. |
Comments on Object | Dimensions not available. |
Localization of Text on Object | concave (inside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Ink is faded in some places. Unknown amount of text is missing due to the fragmentary nature of the piece. | |
Script, Primary | Arabic | |
Language, Primary | Arabic | |
Comments on Handwriting | Not a very neat handwriting, probably a not very practiced hand. Dots and vowels aren't used. | |
Comments on Text Layout | The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 5 | |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | |
Height of Line / Letter |
Modern Title | Private letter about hiring of some persons |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown [not mentioned in text]) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Part of a private letter, about hiring people to do a job. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Comments on Text | No dots or vowels are used. In line four, ʿAbdal-Latīf read the name abū Rāmwdh, but I think this name is b. Marqūra. The amount of rent is missing in the third line. |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | unknown |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
15790 | man | b. Marqūra | ابن مرقوره | Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Arabic Period | 21 AH | 641 CE 912 CE | According to ʿAbd al-Latīf, the date of this text can be placed in the 1st-3rd AH / 7th–9th CE centuries.; |
DatasetID | 311263 |
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 311263 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3333), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal. |