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P.Cair.EgLib.inv. 551

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number P.Cair.EgLib.inv. 551
Publication Number P.Cair.Arab. 291
Current Location Cairo, Egyptian National Library
Publication Permission Status no permission for publication necessary
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty:
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt unknown
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type paper
Dating of Object 4th AH/ 10th CE century.
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
Script, Primary Arabic
Language, Primary Arabic
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 26 41
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Report of an administrator of an estate to his lord
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Report of an administrator of an estate to his lord, mentioning a road connecting the Western Desert oasis to Aswān.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion Islam

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
4th AH/ 10th CE century.;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 312162
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 312162 (= P.Cair.EgLib.inv. 551), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.