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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0337

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0337
Publication Number P.AbdalLatīf Ostraca. 8
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-Latif.
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 Dimensions not available.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Text missing on all except for the upper side.
Script, Primary Arabic
Language, Primary Arabic
Comments on Handwriting Not a very neat handwriting, but seems to be from a practiced hand. Dots and vowels aren't used, and the letters are intertwined.
Comments on Text Layout The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon, without lateral margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 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 The text on convex is part of a private letter in which the sender wishes for God to heal a sick person.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Islam

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1مهما فقد ومر الزمن
2ولا انهاكـ ولا ابقاكـ الهي عليل كما
3 اليكـ لا يوجد اليه ولاسم لـ
4ا قد كتبت اليكـ كفاني
5ـه
6الحمد لله
7حر
convex
1[///] whatever had lost, and time has passed [///]
2[///] nor is it finished you, nor my God kept you sick also [///]
3[///] unto thee, there is none unto him, and to name of [///]
4[///] I have written to you, enough for me [///]
5[///] ..؟.. [///]
6[///] thanks God [///]
7[///] .. [///]
11_S1_001
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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

11_S1_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 311267
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 311267 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0337), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.