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Inventory Number | Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.531 = 12.768.1572 |
Current Location | magazine |
Publication Permission Status | (unknown) |
Publication Status | published |
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) | Wilbour, Charles Edwin Certainty: high |
Object Type | ostracon |
Color | pottery, light brown |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Some signs are faded. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, without lateral margins, but broad ones on top and at the bottom in the height of approximately one line. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 3 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 80 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 24 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 80 x 24 | 0 |
Modern Title | receipt for nḥṱ.t tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Espmetis, son of Pa-ir-dit, is confirmed by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios, of having paid the nḥṱ.t tax for the 18th regnal year in an amount of 2 kỉte. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
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ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
8390 | man | Espmetis, son of Pa-ir-dit | Ns-mtr sꜣ Pa-ỉr-ḏỉ.t | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos | 19 | Pharmuthi | 17 | -266 June 8 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler.; |
DatasetID | 307421 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 69553 |
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 307421 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.531 = 12.768.1572), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata). |