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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 2810

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Metadata

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Publication Status unpublished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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
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 [
4willing] to give you the …
5[without any] disputation.
6[I, NN], I wrote
7[this sherd…].
O2810a_D-DAI-KAI-C-119
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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;

 

Pictures

O2810a_D-DAI-KAI-C-119
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished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.