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Perg. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale 7199

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Perg. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale 7199
Publication Number Déroche, Catalogue des manuscrits arabes, 289
Current Location Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale
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 purchase
Certainty:
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non
between 4 1 1909 and
Finder (= First Purchaser) a mission in Egypt in 1909, executed at the expense of the duke of the loubat
Certainty:
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 donation
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 20 4 1932 and
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Seymour de Ricci
Certainty:
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Blackman, Aylward Manley
Certainty:

Object

Object Type parchment
Dating of Object The 1st-2nd AH/ 7th-8th CE centuries.
Dating between 641 and 816
Criteria for Dating Based on the paleography, for example the letter alif, bends to the right, which characterized the papyrus documents dating from before the third century.
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Cut off on all sides except for the bottom side.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object flesh / hair side
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome brown
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The text is missing on all sides except for the bottom side, and there are some smale gaps with some text loss.
Script, Primary Arabic
Language, Primary Arabic
Comments on Text Layout The text fills almost the entire (preserved) sheet, except for medium free space on the bottom side.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 12 11
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 5 7 to 8
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragment of the Qurʾān (sūra al-Kahf).
Text Types
  • religious-literary | Islamic | Qurʾānic
Summary of Content Fragment of the Qurʾān, sūra al-Kahf (Q 18:22-29, 29-37).
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Religion Islam

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
21 AH 641 CE Based on the paleography, for example the letter alif, bends to the right, which characterized the papyrus documents dating from before the third century.;

 

Pictures

312149_S1_002
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312149_S2_002
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312149_S1_003
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312149_S2_003
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Literature

 

DatasetID 312149
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 312149 (= Perg. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale 7199), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.