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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 2826

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 2826
Current Location Aswan, The magazine of the Pharaonic taftīsh (SCA Aswan)
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details House M 10, yard Stratum 01.2
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 01/02
Dating between 400 and 540
Criteria for Dating Archaeological situation
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave (inside)
Text-Localization, Addendum Near rim of bowl
Inks and Pigments unknown
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Complete, but unfinished, hence trial piece (?)
Script, Primary Coptic Uncial
Language, Primary Coptic
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3
Quantity of Columns 1
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Exercise (?)
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content Beginning of a typical letter or contract, but no text but the opening line, hence probably exercise
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion Christianity
Comment on Religion Religion guessed only from use of staurograms

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
1 Ⳁ ⲁⲛⲟⲕ ⲙⲟⲩⲥⲏⲥ ⲡϣⲉ
2ⲙ̣ⲡⲁⲓ̈ⲱⲧ ⲥⲁⲧ
3
concave
1+ I, Moses, the son
2of my father Sat.
3+
O2826b_D-DAI-KAI-C-322
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
43035 man Mouses, son of Sat ⲙⲟⲩⲥⲏⲥ ⲡϣⲉ ⲙ̣ⲡⲁⲓ̈ⲱⲧ ⲥⲁⲧ Coptic

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Byzantine (Coptic) Period 475 CE 540 CE Archeological situation;

 

Pictures

O2826b_D-DAI-KAI-C-322
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318639
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 318639 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 2826), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Matthias Müller.