E05998: Coptic ostracon from Deir el-Bahari (Upper Egypt) with a work contract to produce 24 garments, the scribe of the contract is a monk of the monastery of Apa *Phoibammon (soldier and martyr of Assiut, S00080); datable to the beginning of the 7th century.
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O.Crum ad. 44
In this contract a man named Ezekias agrees to produce 24 garments. The reverse of the ostracon reads as follows:
'I, David, the monk of Apa Phoibammon, Ezekias has asked me and I have written with my own hand on day 16 of (the month) Mesore, in this year of the fifth indiction. I also act as a witness.'
The ostracon belongs to the Institute for Egyptology at Strasbourg, inv. 675.
Bibliography
Text and translation:
Crum, W.E., Coptic Ostraca from the Collections of the Egypt Exploration Fund (London, 1902), pp. 33 and 97. = O.Crum
German translation:
Till, W.C., Die Koptischen Rechtsurkunden aus Theben (Vienna, 1964), 72.