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Collection | Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3330 |
Publication Number | P.AbdalLatīf Ostraca. 18 |
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 except for the upper side, where the original rim can be seen. |
Comments on Object | Dimensions not available. |
Localization of Text on Object | concave/convex (inside/outside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | The text is missing on the bottom and the left side. Ink and letters are faded/rubbed off in several places, especially on the concave 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. | |
Comments on Text Layout | The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon, with a small margin at the top. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 2 | 2 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Height of Line / Letter |
Ancient Title | Sūra al-Raʿd |
Modern Title | Sūra al-Raʿd |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Lines of the Qurʾān from sūra al-Raʿd (XIII). |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Comments on Text | The ink on the concave side has faded/rubbed away, making the writing impossible to read; nonetheless, it might be a complement to the text on the convex side, or another Qurʾānic text. |
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.; |
DatasetID | 311277 |
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 311277 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3330), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal. |