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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2599

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2599
Publication Number P.AbdalLatīf Ostraca. 17
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 AH/ 7thCE century
Dating between 641 and 719
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.

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) Ink and letters are faded/rubbed off in several places and some ink stains existed. The text is missing on all sides except for the top.
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, with only small margin at the top, and there is blank space at the end of the first line.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title The Court's Decision
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Part of a court's final judgment, as well as the name of the convicted.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text The nature of the offense was not specified, but it was claimed that the court's decision could not be overturned.
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion Islam

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1بسم الله الرحمن الــرحيم
2‮‬‬‬‬‬‬ رتد محكمة ضد محمد علي موســى
3ولا امو فان على موسى
4‮‬‬‬‬‬‬ولا رد عام
convex
1[In the name of God the Merciful, the] Compassionate.
2[///] court against Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Mus[ā]
3[///] and not ..؟.. that's ʿAlī b. Musā [///]
4[///] no general response [///]
20_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
15815 man Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Musā محمد علي موسى 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 AH/ 7th CE century.;

 

Pictures

20_S1_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 311276
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 311276 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2599), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.