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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.551 = 12.768.1562

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.551 = 12.768.1562
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 Left part broken off in undetermined extent.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex/concave
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Some line endings resp. beginnings are lost today.
Script, Primary Middle to Late Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic - Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Unsteady line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small lateral marginsonly on the verso. The text continues on the verso, with a broad upper margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 11+y 7+y
Quantity of Columns 1 01
Line Lenght (in mm) 85 80
Column Height (in mm) 85 66
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 85 x 85 80 x 66

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter from Pachnoumis, son of Pa-netjer-nefer, to the general Peter, son of Portis, about something "concerning the matters of the cloak" and "the woman's matter" as well as "slaughterings(?)". The exact context is not clear.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: mentioning "the woman's matter" in unclear context
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-ḥ.t-nṯr pꜣ mr ı͗ḥ pꜣ nty ḏd ı͗r 1At first “ḏd“ was written, than the upper stroke was crossed out. Cf. Ostr Brooklyn 12.768.1557+1590+1615 with the same fault, but without correction. nꜣ sm.w n
2Ptr sꜣ Pꜣ-wr-dı͗w pꜣ ḥry mšꜥ m-bꜣḥ
3H̱nm Spd.t ꜥnq.t nꜣ nṯr.w n Yb
4ı͗w=w nḥm=k ı͗w=w ḏı͗ wḏꜣ=k ı͗w=w stꜣ.ṱ=k ẖn sḥn
5nfr nb mn ḏꜣ.t ı͗rm
6rmṯ nb nty mtw=k ḏr=w m-ı͗r ḫꜣꜥ mḏ .t r-bl ẖr
7nꜣ md.w t n pꜣ gnwg ḥn=y n=k
8tꜣ mḏ .t r-dbꜣ.t=f r-dbꜣ ḫpr ı͗w=y
9m-šs nꜣ šꜥ.wt nꜣ sw.w
10 ḥḏ dbn 150
11

1 At first “ḏd“ was written, than the upper stroke was crossed out. Cf. Ostr Brooklyn 12.768.1557+1590+1615 with the same fault, but without correction.
concave
vso1tꜣ md .t s:ḥm.t r-dbꜣ ḫꜣꜥ mḏ .t r-bl
vso2ẖr pꜣ gwng nꜣ-ꜥꜣ
vso3pꜣy=f ꜣy.t ı͗rm(?) =f m-šs
vso4bn-ı͗w=w pꜣ rmṯ bw-ı͗r n=k pꜣ
vso5 rn Pa-mtn sꜣ? Pa-H̱nm
vso6 nty ı͗w=w wḫꜣ=s my hb=w
vso7 ḥsb.t(?) 26 ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 20 +x
convex
1Pachnoumis, son of Pa-hetnetjer, the overseer of cattle, is the one who sends greetings to
2Peter, (son) of Portis, the general, before
3Chnum, Satis, and Anoukis, the gods of Elephantine.
4They will save you, they will keep you well, they will bring you back in all good
5condition. There is nothing lacking ..?.. together with
6every person that belongs to you. Do not neglect a thing concerning
7the matters of the cloak(?). I have entrusted to you
8the matter concerning it, because I [///]
9very much. The slaughterings(?), the days, [///]
10[///] ..?.. 150 silver (deben) [///]
11[///] ..?.. [///]
concave
vso1the woman’s matter, because of neglecting a thing
vso2concerning the cloak(?) ..?.. Great is
vso3the need of it, and(?) ..?.. it very much.
vso4They will not ..?.. the man ..?.., while cannot be made for you the ..?..
vso5[///] named ..?.. Pa-meten, (son?) of Pachnoumis
vso6[///] ˹which˺ is wanted, let them sent
vso7[///] 26th [regnal year], 20+xth of Thoth.
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Yb (places.xml#r3)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    8385 man Pa-meten, son of Pachnoumis Pa-mtn sꜣ Pa-H̱nm pre-Coptic Egyptian

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Ptolemaic Dynasty (late) 26 Thoth 20+x -180 BCE 50 CE Dating by palaeography.;

     

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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 307420
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 69608
    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 307420 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.551 = 12.768.1562), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).