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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.557 = 12.768.1557+1590+1615

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.557 = 12.768.1557+1590+1615
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery purchase
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Wilbour, Charles Edwin
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution donation
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1916 and 1916
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) "Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour."
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, light brown
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Broken into three pieces.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Partly damaged, the endings of the last lines are lost.
Script, Primary Middle to Late Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic - Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Narrow line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, without lateral margins. One on top and and at the bottom broad margins remain.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 15 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 80 0
Column Height (in mm) 55 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 80 x 55 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter of unclear content
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter from Onnophrỉs, son of Pachnoumỉs, son of Onnophrỉs, to the priest of all gods in Elephantine named Onnophrỉs, son of Pachnoumỉs, son of Onnophrỉs. He asks to send Peteasychis in the second morning(?) hour, possibly about eating. The rest is partly crucial.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Wn-nfr sꜣ Pa-H̱nm
2sꜣ Wn-nfr pꜣ nty ḏd ı͗r 1Written was „ḏd“, but Cf. Ostr Brooklyn 12768:1562 also from Elephantine. There also at first “ḏd“ was written, than the upper stroke was crossed out. The scribe made the same mistake here, but failed to efface the upper stroke. nꜣ sm.w
3 n Wn-nfr sꜣ Pa-H̱nm
4sꜣ Wn-nfr pꜣ ḥm nṯr H̱nm
5Spd.t ꜥnq.t
6Wsjr Ḥr ꜣs.t ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr.w
7n tꜣ sḫ.t Yb
8Pr-ı͗w-wꜥb ı͗w=s
9ḥs n ḥꜣ.ṱ=k
10špy hb n=y Pꜣ-ḏı͗-ꜥšꜣ-ı͗ḥy
11n ḏd-wnw.t 2.t n dwꜣy r-dbꜣ
12pꜣ gy n wnm tw=y šn r.ı͗r=k
13 Wn-nfr sꜣ Pa-H̱nm
14sꜣ Wn-nfr
15
16

1 Written was „ḏd“, but Cf. Ostr Brooklyn 12768:1562 also from Elephantine. There also at first “ḏd“ was written, than the upper stroke was crossed out. The scribe made the same mistake here, but failed to efface the upper stroke.
1[Onno]phrı͗s, son of Pachnoumis,
2[son of On]nophris, is the one who sends greeti͗ngs
3(to) Onnophris, son of Pachnoumis,
4son of Onnophris, the priest of Chnum,
5Satis, Anoukis,
6Osiris, Horus, Isis and the gods
7of the region of Elephantine
8at Bigge. If it is
9acceptable to your heart ..?..
10gift ..?.. Thus has sent to me Peteasychis
11in the 2nd hour of the morning(?) because of
12the manner of eating(?). I inquire about you
13..?.. Onnophris, son of Pachnoumis,
14son of Onnophris ..?.. [///]
15..?.. [///]
16..?..
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Yb (places.xml#r3)
  • Pr-ı͗w-wꜥb (places.xml#s26)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    8350 man Onnophris, son of Pachnoumis, son of Onnophris Wn-nfr sꜣ Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Wn-nfr pre-Coptic Egyptian

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Ptolemaic Dynasty (late) -180 BCE 50 CE Dating by palaeography.;

     

    Pictures

    16.580.557_BROO0299_S1
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    16.580.557_BROO0300_S1
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    16.580.557_BROO0301_S1
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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 307418
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 69610
    Author Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 307418 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.557 = 12.768.1557+1590+1615), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).