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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3319

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3319
Publication Number P.AbdalLatīf Ostraca. 14
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 off on all sides.
Comments on Object Dimensions not available.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave (inside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The ink is partly faded and 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. Dots and vowels aren't used and the letters are intertwined.
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

 

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 Five lines of a private letter survive, with the names Aḥmad, Moḥamad, ʿUmar and Abī bakr mentioned.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion Islam

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
1‮‬‬‬‬‬ بسم الــله الرحمن الرحيم
2‮‬‬‬‬‬الى عــمر
3‮‬‬‬‬‬احمد بن
4‮‬‬‬‬‬د محـمد
5‮‬‬‬‬‬ابي بكر
concave
1In the name of G[od the Merciful, the Compassionate.]
2To ʿU[mar] [///]
3Aḥmad b. [///]
4..؟.. Muḥammad [///]
5Abī bakr [///]
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
17505 man Abī bakr ‮‬‬‬‬‬ابي بكر 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.;

 

Pictures

17_S1_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 311273
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 311273 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3319), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.