Text 695
- Provenance
- Abd el-Qadir
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- site 5-0-15
- Excavation no.
- 5-0-15/4
- Present location
- British Museum, London
- Museum no.
- EA79656
- 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: 11.2; W: 12.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- red
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 3
- Height of letters
- Description
- written on convex side
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- 700–899
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
indiction
- Dating formulae
- ⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲑⲱⲑ ⲓ︤ⲁ ⲓⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ⳤ
- Transcription
- "in the month of Thoth, in the 11th indiction" (l. 3)
- Months
- ⲑⲱⲑ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- notary (ⲛⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 2
sailor (ⲛⲁⲩ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 1
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- © The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA79656
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Ruffini 2010, pp. 232–3 (no. 2), photo at <https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA79656>
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Adams 2005, pp. 45, 182–4, pl. 21c; CSCN, pp. 111–14
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