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ostracon
Object Type
ostracon
Museum number
EA33252
Description
Limestone ostracon; dot-letters beneath a decorative strip. The inscription comprises a practice 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:
12.90 centimetres
Width:
16.60 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
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.125)
Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources
(82600)
(http://www.trismegistos.org/text/82600)
Location
Not on display
Condition
good
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Egypt Exploration Fund
Acquisition date
1900
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA33252
Registration number
1900,1120.472
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number:
EEF no. 472
Miscellaneous number:
O.Brit.Mus.Copt. I 27:4
(text edition abbreviation according to Oates et al 2001)
Miscellaneous number:
O.Rain.UnterrichtKopt. 191
(text edition abbreviation according to Oates et al 2001)