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Artefact ID1213
TM IDTM 64455
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialCeramic
Writing mediumOstracon
Text contentSubliterary
LanguageGreek, Coptic
Description

O.Petr.Mus. 51 (= O.Petr. 412)

Ostracon with alphabet from alpha to omicron as school exercise, considered to be Greek in ed. princ. but could be Coptic as well (Cromwell 2015)

Selection criteriaCoptic language
Date from301
Date to400
Dating criteria

Palaeography (far from certain acc. to Cromwell)

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

London, University College. Petrie Museum, UC31902

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Tait, John Gavin. 1930. Greek Ostraca in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Various Other Collections I, Graeco-Roman Memoirs 21. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 144 (as O.Petrie inv. 412).

Reference edition

• Funghi, Maria Serena, Gabriella Messeri, and Cornelia Eva Römer. 2012. Ostraca greci e bilingui del Petrie Museum of Egyptian archaeology (O.Petr.Mus.) I, Papyrologica Florentina 42. Florence: Gonnelli, #51.

Additional bibliography

• Cribiore, Raffaella. 1996. Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt, American Studies in Papyrology 36. Atlanta/GA: Scholars Press, 187 #59 & pl. V.

• Cromwell, Jennifer. 2015. "Coptic Writing Exercises in the Petrie Museum with a Concordance of its Published Coptic Texts." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 195: 216 [205–218].

Authors
Matthias Müller, 2021
Suggested citation
Matthias Müller, 2021, "Artefact ID 1213", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1213
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