The Greek and Coptic ostraca from the Baouît monastery preserved at the Bible+Orient Foundation of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). BEC 25.
IFAO| N° d'inventaire | 20055 |
| Format | 20.5 x 28 |
| Détails | 112 p., hardcover. |
| Publication | Cairo, 2016 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782724706826 |
Collection: Coptic Study Library 25. In 2005, thanks to a donation from the heirs of a private collector, the Bible + Orient Foundation of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) was able to enrich its collection with a batch of sixty-eight Greek and Coptic ostraca. The formula "chine nsa", present on almost all of the documents, allows them to be linked to the monastery of Baouît, in Middle Egypt, from where they undoubtedly come. These are documentary texts used in the context of the economic management of the monastery and which transmit orders relating to the transport of goods, especially wheat, to the monastery. These ostraca appear as a homogeneous and coherent batch. The repetition of anthroponyms, toponyms, dates, and the fact that the hand of the same scribe is recognizable on several of them, suggests that the Fribourg ostraca constituted an archive in Antiquity.
Collection: Coptic Study Library 25. In 2005, thanks to a donation from the heirs of a private collector, the Bible + Orient Foundation of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) was able to enrich its collection with a batch of sixty-eight Greek and Coptic ostraca. The formula "chine nsa", present on almost all of the documents, allows them to be linked to the monastery of Baouît, in Middle Egypt, from where they undoubtedly come. These are documentary texts used in the context of the economic management of the monastery and which transmit orders relating to the transport of goods, especially wheat, to the monastery. These ostraca appear as a homogeneous and coherent batch. The repetition of anthroponyms, toponyms, dates, and the fact that the hand of the same scribe is recognizable on several of them, suggests that the Fribourg ostraca constituted an archive in Antiquity.