Text 2259
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cemetery 192B, surface
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- British Museum, London
- Museum no.
- EA66574
- Medium
- ostrakon
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- literary
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- unidentified text, possibly of literary character
- Date
- 550–899
- Notes
- Material
- ceramic
- Object dimensions
- H: 8.3; W: 13.6
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- concave side: 10;
convex side: 8 - Height of letters
- Description
- inscription painted on both sides of potsherd
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete; ink obliterated
- Date
- 550–899
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- © The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA66574
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Meltzer 1982, pp. 84–5 (no. 2), pl. 92.2 (photo available at http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=347306001&objectId=152098&partId=1)
- Other editions
- Other publications
- MIlls 1982, p. 42 (no. 5)
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