Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.555 = 12.768.1593

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Inventory Number	Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.555 = 12.768.1593
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	incomplete
State of Preservation	The upper part is lost in an undetermined height. The lower left part ist lost, too.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

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

Modern Title	account of income of priests from the Chnoum temple
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in 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)

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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-
4	Pa-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
12	Pa-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(?)
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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	..?..

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

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

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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).