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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.555 = 12.768.1593

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.555 = 12.768.1593
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 incomplete
State of Preservation The upper part is lost in an undetermined height. The lower left part ist lost, too.
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) only lines x+5 to x+8 are completely preserved.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon, without lateral margins, but with a large lower space remaining uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 17 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 88 0
Column Height (in mm) 155 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 88 x x+155 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account of income of priests from the Chnoum temple
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
  • documentary | list
Summary of Content List of male persons connected with deliveries or income. Many names contain theophoric elements, so very likely this text represents an income account of priests from the Chnoum temple.
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
1 1Transcription and and translation by J. Moje, except for line 8 and the first name in line 7.
2 By-ꜥnḫ sꜣ
3 Pa-
4Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pꜣ-
5 Wn-nfr ꜥꜣ sꜣ Pa-H̱nm 12
6 m-dy sw 21
7 Ṯꜣy-ḏy sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗mn mḏꜥ 6
8 mḏꜥ 6
9 Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Nfr-ḥtp sꜣ Pꜣ-
10 Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-nꜣ-ḥ mḏꜥ 6
11 Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-H̱nm mḏꜥ numeral
12Pa-H̱nm mḏꜥ numeral
13 Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Wn-nfr (sꜣ) ⸢mḏꜥ⸣ numeral
14..?.. Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r mḏꜥ numeral
15 Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Wn-nfr sꜣ Pꜣ-
16 Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm(?)
17

1 Transcription and and translation by J. Moje, except for line 8 and the first name in line 7.
1 ⸢..?..⸣[///]
2 Bienchis, son of [///]
3 Pa…?.. [///]
4 Pachnoumis, son of Pa…?.. [///]
5 Onnophris, son of Pachnoumis: 12
6 from the 21st day.
7 Tjay-dy, son of Petamounis: 6 medja-measure.
8 ..?..: 6 medja-measure.
9 Pachnoumis, son of Peenephotes, son of Pa..?.. [///]
10 Pachnoumis, son of Paneh..?..: 6 medja-measure.
11 Pachnoumis, son of Pachnoumis ..?..: [///] medja-measure.
12 Pachnoumis, (son) of ..?.. : [///] medja-measure.
13 Pachnnoumis, son of Onnophis, son of ..?..: [///] medja-measure.
14 ..?.. Petosiris: [///] medja-measure.
15 Pachnoumis, son of Onnophis, son of Pa⸢..?..⸣[///]
16 Stamnaichnoumis ..?.. [///]
17 ..?..
16.580.555_BROO0258_S1
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
25620 man ..?.. (Brookl 1593) ..?.. pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period -30 BCE 211 CE Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

16.580.555_BROO0258_S1
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16.580.555_BROO0259_S1
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16.580.555_BROO0260_S1
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307423
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 89086
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 307423 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.555 = 12.768.1593), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).