Text 697
- Provenance
- Abd el-Qadir
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- site 5-0-15
- Excavation no.
- 5-0-15/6
- Present location
- British Museum, London
- Museum no.
- EA79658
- Medium
- ostrakon
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: economic
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- bill of lading for shipments of barley
- Date
- 700–899
- Notes
- Material
- ceramic
- Object dimensions
- H: 11.5; W: 14.0
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 3
- Height of letters
- Description
- written on convex side
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete, but highly obliterated
- Date
- 700–899
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
indiction
- Dating formulae
- ⲙ̣⸌ⲏ̣⸍ ⲑ̣ⲱ̣ⲑ̣ ⲇ̣̄ ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲛ
- Transcription
- "in the month of Thoth, in the 4th indiction" (l. 2)
- Months
- ⲑ̣ⲱ̣ⲑ̣
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- notary (ⲛⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 3
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- © The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA79658
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Ruffini 2010, p. 233 (no. 4), photo at <https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA79658>
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Adams 2005, pp. 45, 182–4; CSCN, pp. 111–14
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