Text 3078

Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
house 1030, room 1, level 2
Excavation no.
86.1.5/5 (reg. 86/669)
Present location
Cairo (?)
Museum no.
 
Medium
ostrakon
Technique
painted
Type of text
alphabet
Language
Syriac
Content
Syriac alphabet
Date
550–599
Notes
 
Material
ceramic
Object dimensions
H: 8.4; W: 6.3
Text dimensions
H: 4.7; W: 5.4
Object colour
 
Text colour
black (?)
Lines
5
Height of letters
 
Description
roughly rectangular shard from body of utility (?) vessel with 5 lines of text written across ribbing on outer surface in upper part of the piece; lower half left uninscribed
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete; text obliterated in places
Date
550–599
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
van Ginkel – van der Vliet 2015, fig. 1
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
van Ginkel – van der Vliet 2015, pp. 48–51, fig. 1
Other editions
 
Other publications
 
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