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Ostracon 5878
- Record Id:
- 040-004578944
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003450097
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100193143903.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100195779548.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ostracon 5878
- Title:
- Great Doxology with Miaphysite Trisagion (TM 65221)
- Scope & Content:
- Great Doxology with Miaphysite Trisagion in Greek.
Obverse:
Begins: 'ⳁ Δόξα ἐνὑψίστο[ις Θεῷ καὶ]...
Ends: '...φωτί σου ὀψόμεθα φῶς.'
Reverse:
Begins: 'Παράτεινον τ̣ὸ̣ ἔλεός̣ σου...'
Ends: '... ἐ̣λ̣έ̣η̣σ̣ο̣ν̣ ἡμᾶς ⳁ'.
14ἡμᾶςⳁ - Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Ostraca Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003450097
040-004578944 - Is part of:
- Ostracon 5790-63860 : Ostraca collection
Ostracon 5878 : Great Doxology with Miaphysite Trisagion (TM 65221) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003450097[0279]/040-004578944
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Ostracon 5790-63860
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 potsherd, incomplete, consisting of four fragments, three of which are housed in the British Library and one in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, written with black ink. There are 32 lines on the obverse and 14 lines on the reverse, which follow the shape of the ostracon. The outer surface of the central part of the sherd broke off at places, resulting in loss of some texts at the beginning of the hymn. The item is otherwise preserved well.
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100195779548.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0575
- End Date:
- 0624
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 6th century - 1st quarter of the 7th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Pottery.
Dimensions: 205 x 197 x 7 mm.
Script: Uncial hand, slightly sloping to the right, the hand of Apa Moses.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Monastery of Apa Epiphanius, Thebes, Egypt.
Provenance:
Giovanni Anastasi (b. 1780. d. 1860), Swedish Consul General to Egypt: his "second sale" in 1839.
Purchased by the British Museum at the second sale of Giovanni Ananastasi in 1839.
- Former Internal References:
- Ostracon 5867
Ostracon 5868 - Publications:
- Peter Toth, 'Great Doxology with Miaphysite Trisagion', Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 69 (2023), pp. 55-72.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)