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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0198

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0198
Publication Number	P.AbdalLatīf Ostraca. 7
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: high

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 all sides except for the upper side, where the original rim can be seen.
Comments on Object	ʿAbdal-Latīf mentioned that the surface is very dark and the writing difficult to see. 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)	The ink is faded in several places. Text is missing on all except for the upper side.
Script, Primary	Arabic
Language, Primary	Arabic
Comments on Handwriting	Not a very neat handwriting. Dots and vowels aren't used.
Comments on Text Layout	The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7	7
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	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary | letter
Summary of Content	Part of a private letter in which money is mentioned.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	Dots didn't use
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Islam

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
15800	man	Muḥammad	محمد	Arabic

 

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.;

 

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Literature

• Muḥammad ʿAbd al-latīf, Dirāsa Āthāryya wa-Ḥadāryya li-Niṣuṣi Baʿḍ al-Shuqāfāt al-Fukhāryya min al-ʿAṣr al-Islāmī al-Mubakir (1–3 AH/ 7–9 CE) wa-Ālmuktashafa Ḥadīthan fī Jazyrat al-Fantaīn bi-Aswān (2016). (pp. 426-427, pl. 9-10.)

 

DatasetID	311266
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 311266 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0198), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.