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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 2820

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 2820
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Publication Status unpublished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 Glued from two fragments, further pieces missing though

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave/convex (inside/outside)
Inks and Pigments unknown
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Pen trials, strokes would have extended over preserved parts
Script, Primary (none)
Language, Primary (none)
Specialities in Writing Direction Pen trails in different directions
Comments on Text Layout Pen trials on both sides, neither hieroglyphs/hieratic signs or Demotic or Greek/Coptic
Existing Pictorial Elements Some appear like drawings

 

Text Content

Modern Title Pen trials
Text Types
  • scientific | writing exercise
Summary of Content Pen trials, no letters or words just strokes
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)

 

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

O2820d_D-DAI-KAI-C-322
Reserved Copyright
O2820e_D-DAI-KAI-C-322
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318653
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 318653 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 2820), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Matthias Müller.