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Ostr. Paris, Louvre AF 12594

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre AF 12594
Publication Number Etudes coptes VII 21
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status partly 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) Clermont-Ganneau, Charles
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating of Object 5-7th cent. CE
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Broken off on all sides, possibly not on the right.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave (inside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Six fragmentary lines of a text. The ink is well preserved.
Script, Primary Coptic Cursive
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Practised document hand.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6+x
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content The exact contents and genre of the text cannot be determined due to the fragmentary nature of the ostracon.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text Coptic and Greek?
Multilingualism Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
x+1ⲱϥ
x+2
x+3ⲁⲛⲟⲕ ⲁⲃⲣⲁⲁⲙ ⲓ̈ⲁⲕⲱⲃⲟⲥ
x+4 ⲁⲛⲁⲅⲛⲱⲧⲏⲥ ⲁⲛⲁⲅⲛⲱⲥⲧⲏⲥ ⲁⲓ̈ⲥϩⲁⲓ̈
x+5ϫⲉ ⲧⲏⲥ ⲅ︦
x+6
concave
x+1(...)...?...
x+2(...)
x+3I, Abraham son of Jakobos,
x+4 reader (?), have written
x+5(...) of 3
x+6(...)...?...
Louvre AF_12594_recto_
© 2020 Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Christian Décamps
Louvre AF_12594_verso_
© 2020 Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Christian Décamps
Louvre AF_12594_S1_002
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
19040 man Abraham son of Jakobos ⲁⲃⲣⲁⲁⲙ ⲓⲁⲕⲱⲃⲟⲥ Coptic

 

Pictures

Louvre AF_12594_recto_
© 2020 Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Christian Décamps
Louvre AF_12594_verso_
© 2020 Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Christian Décamps
Louvre AF_12594_S1_002
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 312711
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 312711 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre AF 12594), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.