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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 4855

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 4855
Current Location Aswan, The magazine of the Pharaonic taftīsh (SCA Aswan)
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details House M 10, yard Stratum 01
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution excavation finds

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating of Object Prior to end of stratum 01
Dating between 400 and 540
Criteria for Dating Archaeological situation
Range of Preservation incomplete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave (inside)
Inks and Pigments unknown
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient or Coptic
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3
Quantity of Columns 1
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title unclear content
Text Types
  • (unclear)
Summary of Content Remains of three lines of text, the apperance of the letter ϣ speaks in favour of Coptic, but the sequence preserved does not yield any coherent Coptic text
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
1[– – –]ⲁⲙ̣ⲱⲛ ⲡⲁⲭⲛⲩⲙ
2[– – –]ⲧⲙⲛ̄ϣⲉ
3[– – –]ⲏⲣⲏⲙ .[– – –]
concave
1Amôn, Pakhnum
2with hundred
3 ??
O4855_R_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Byzantine (Coptic) Period 425 CE 540 CE Archeological situation;

 

Pictures

O4855_R_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318634
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Matthias Müller
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 318634 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 4855), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Matthias Müller.