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ostracon
Object Type
ostracon
Museum number
EA32839
Description
Limestone ostracon containing an administrative text written in Coptic.
Cultures/periods
Coptic
Production date
7thC-8thC
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Egypt Exploration Fund
Excavated by:
Henri Édouard Naville
(1893-94, on behalf of EEF)
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Monastery of St Phoibammon
Materials
limestone
Dimensions
Height:
10.20 centimetres
Width:
11.60 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
administrative
Bibliographic references
Crum 1902 / Coptic ostraca
(p.32)
Till 1964 / Die koptischen Rechtsurkunden aus Theben
(pp. 57-58)
Till 1956 / Die koptischen Arbeitsverträge
(p. 299)
Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources
(390598)
(http://www.trismegistos.org/text/390598)
Location
Not on display
Condition
fair (chipped)
Associated names
Named in inscription:
Elijah
(Solomon)
Named in inscription:
Apa Phoibammon
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Egypt Exploration Fund
Acquisition date
1900
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA32839
Registration number
1900,1120.59
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number:
EEF no. 59
Miscellaneous number:
O.Crum 220
(text edition abbreviation according to Oates et al 2001)