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Collection | Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 419 |
Publication Number | inedit |
Current Location | Elephantine, excavation magazine DAI |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication upon enquiry only |
Publication Status | unpublished |
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 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt Certainty: high |
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) | Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director) Certainty: high |
Object Type | ostracon |
Dating of Object | The 1st-3rd AH/ 7th-9th CE centuries |
Dating | between 641 and 912 |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Broken on all sides. |
Comments on Object | Dimensions not available. |
Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
Script, Primary | Arabic | |
Language, Primary | Arabic | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 6 | |
Quantity of Columns | 1 |
Modern Title | Private letter |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Private letter regarding business transactions between muslims and christians. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Script = Language Monolingual |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Islam |
Religion, further | Christianity |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
21 AH | 641 CE | ; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 316835 |
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 316835 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 419), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal. |