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Ostr. Paris, Louvre AF 12588

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Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre AF 12588
Publication Number	ined.
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	unpublished

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	Fragmentary ostracon, most of it missing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	concave (inside)
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Most of the text is missing, five fragmentary lines remain.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines		5
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary | dept instrument
Summary of Content	Based on the (fragmentary) formulae, this is a typical debt acknowledgement, but the contents (who owes, what, how much) are missing.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual
Religion	Christianity

 

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previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	318002
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 318002 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre AF 12588), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.