ostracon

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Object Type
Museum number: EA33136
Description: Limestone ostracon containing a letter written in Coptic and various letters.
Cultures/periods
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
Dimensions: Height: 13.70 centimetres; Width: 9.60 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject: epistolary; educational
Bibliographic references: Hall 1905 / Coptic and Greek Texts of the Christian Period from Ostraka, Stelae, etc. in the British Museum (p.35, pl.27); Godlewski 1986 / Le monastère de St Phoibammon (p.159); Hasitzka 1990 / Neue Texte und Dokumentation zum Koptisch-Unterricht (p.97); Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources (82601) (http://www.trismegistos.org/text/82601)
Location: Not on display
Condition: good (text faded)
Associated names: Named in inscription: Aelia Eudoxia; Named in inscription: Theodoros
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1900
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA33136
Registration number: 1900,1120.356
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: EEF no. 356; Miscellaneous number: O.Brit.Mus.Copt. I 27:5 (text edition abbreviation according to Oates et al 2001); Miscellaneous number: O.Rain.UnterrichtKopt. 148 (text edition abbreviation according to Oates et al 2001)

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