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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 2810

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Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 2810
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Publication Status	unpublished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 01/02
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 540 and 560
Criteria for Dating	Archaeological situation
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Left part missing

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	concave (inside)
Inks and Pigments	unknown
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Only end of lines
Script, Primary	Coptic Uncial
Language, Primary	Coptic
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines		7
Quantity of Columns		1
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	Debt acknowledgement
Text Types	documentary \| dept instrument
Summary of Content	Name of debtor and creditor lost, formular seems to folow the common one
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual

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1	[– – –]ⲛ . .[– – –]
2	[– – –] . ⲉⲛⲉⲛ . [.?]
3	[– – – ⲉⲧⲁ]ⲭ̣ⲣⲓⲁ ϯⲟ ⲛ
4	[ϩⲉⲧⲟⲓⲙⲟⲥ ⲧⲁⲧⲁⲁⲩ ⲛⲁⲕ ]ⲡ̣ⲉⲃⲟⲩ
5	[ⲁϫⲛⲗⲁⲁⲩ ⲛϩⲱⲃ ⲛⲁⲛ]ⲧ̣ⲓⲗⲟⲅⲓⲁ
6	[ⲁⲛⲟⲕ – – –]ⲥ ⲁⲓ̈ⲥϩⲁⲓ
7	[ϯⲃⲗϫⲉ – – –]: ⲉ

concave

1	[X writes to Y].
2	[…]… […] …
3	[…to my] need. I am [
4	willing] to give you the …
5	[without any] disputation.
6	[I, NN], I wrote
7	[this sherd…].

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Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Byzantine (Coptic) Period				540 CE 560 CE	Archeological situation;

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	318650
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 318650 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 2810), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Matthias Müller.