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| Collection | Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3400 |
| Publication Number | P.AbdalLatīf Ostraca. 11 |
| 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 except for the upper side, where the original rim of the vessel can be seen. |
| Comments on Object | Dimensions not available. |
| Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | Only a few words from the letter's beginning survive, while the rest of the text is lost. | |
| 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. | |
| Comments on Text Layout | The text is written on the left lower part of the potsherd's surface, leaving the rest of the surface blank. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 2 | |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | |
| Modern Title | Private letter |
| Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown [not mentioned in text]) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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| Summary of Content | Two lines from the typical opening remain as part of a privet letter. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text | ʿAbdal-Latīf read the secound line as [..........] احمد بن [................], but i think it's a part of the usual opening, dots didn't use. |
| Multilingualism | Script = Language Monolingual |
| Religion | Islam |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | |||||||||
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| 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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| Reserved Copyright |
| DatasetID | 311270 |
| 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 311270 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3400), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal. |
