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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. 34
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 on all 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 concave (inside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
Script, Primary Arabic
Language, Primary Arabic

 

Text Content

Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)

 

 

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

41_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 312142
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 312142 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0337), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.