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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.531 = 12.768.1572

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.531 = 12.768.1572
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) Wilbour, Charles Edwin
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, light brown
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for nḥṱ.t tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ns-ntr sꜣ Pa-ı͗r-ḏı͗.t ḥḏ qd 2 n ḥḏ n nḥṱ.t
2n ḥsb.t 18 n-ḏr.t Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s ḥsb.t 19
3ı͗bd 4 pr.t sw 17
convex
1Thus has brought Espmetis, son of Pa-ir-dit, 2 silver kite (for) the nḥṱ.t tax
2for the 18th regnal year. Issued by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios. 19th regnal year,
317th of Pharmouthi.
16.580.531_BROO0263_S1
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16.580.531_BROO0262_S1
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16.580.531_BROO0261_S1
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16.580.531_BROO0264_S2
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

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

 

Dates

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.;

 

Pictures

16.580.531_BROO0263_S1
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16.580.531_BROO0262_S1
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16.580.531_BROO0261_S1
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16.580.531_BROO0264_S2
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16.580.531_BROO0265_S2
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Literature

 

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).