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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 4856

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 4856
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Publication Status unpublished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 convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments unknown
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Upper right of an ostracon
Script, Primary Coptic Uncial
Language, Primary Coptic
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Letter
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Fragment of a letter, as only beginnings of lines are preserved, the contents cannot be specified, but most probably contained some order or suggestions (see line 6 "and you take it")
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ⲡⲁⲛ[– – –]
2ϣⲓⲛⲉ . [– – –]
3ⲉⲡⲟⲩⲁⲁ̣[ⲃ – – –]
4ⲧⲁⲡⲓ̣̈ⲁ̣ ⲛ̄[– – –]
5ⲛⲅ̄ϫⲓⲧϥ︦ . [– – –]
6ⲧⲉϥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲃ̣ [– – –]
convex
1+ Pan[…]
2greeting […]
3the holy […]
4
5and you take it
6
O4856_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
43030 (uncertain) Pan[- - -] ⲡⲁⲛ[– – –] Coptic

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

O4856_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318635
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 318635 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 4856), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Matthias Müller.