Temple of Narmouthis: house of the ostraca
| Name: | Temple of Narmouthis: house of the ostraca |
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| Place: | 00c - Narmouthis (Medinet Madi) |
| Century: | AD02 AD03 |
| Begin: | AD 124 |
| End: | AD 225 |
| Language/script: | bilingual: Greek, Demotic and bilingual Greek-Demo |
| Material: | ostraca |
| Texts: | 529 |
| ↳ certain: | 529 |
| ↳ uncertain: | 0 |
| ↳ erroneous: | |
| Type: | temple archive |
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| Description: | some 1471 ostraca found stored in the temple of Narmouthis; school texts, horoscopes, drafts |
| Studies: | Sijpesteijn, ZPE 76 (1989), p. 85-92; Giannotti, Istruzioni per un apprendista bibliotecario negli ostraka demotici e bilingui di Narmuthis, in EVO 30 (2007), p. 117 & n. 2; Menchetti / Pintaudi, CdE 84 (2009), p. 201-238; Rutherford, Bilingualism in Roman Egypt? Exploring the archive of Phatres of Narmuthis, in Evans / Obbink, The language of the papyri, 2010, p. 198-207 |
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| Work: | Only part of the archive is thus far published; the rest is studied by Paolo Gallo and Rosario Pintaudi. |
| Collections: |
Cairo, Egyptian Museum Kom Aushim, Karanis Museum |
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