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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.533 = 12.768.1587

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.533 = 12.768.1587
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 is placed onto the potsherd, with small lateral margins, and broad upper and lower ones.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 60 0
Column Height (in mm) 32 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 60 x 32 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for compulsory labor tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios, is confirmed by Belles, son of Stamnaichnoumis, of having paid the compulsory labor tax for the 19th 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 Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s ḥḏ qd ½
2 n ḥḏ n ꜥrṱ n ḥsb.t 35 n-ḏr.t Br
3sꜣ Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm ḥsb.t 34 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 30
convex
1Thus has brought Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios, ½ silver kite
2(for) the compulsory labor (for) the 35th regnal year. Issued by Belles,
3son of Stamnaichnoumis. 34th regnal year, 30th of Epeiph.
16.580.533_BROO0268_S1
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16.580.533_BROO0266_S1
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
6590 man Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm sꜢ Ḏḥwtỉ-ỉ.ỉr-ḏỉ-s pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 34 Epeiph 30 -251 September 15 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

Pictures

16.580.533_BROO0268_S1
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16.580.533_BROO0266_S1
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16.580.533_BROO0267_S1
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307422
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 69556
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 307422 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.533 = 12.768.1587), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).