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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.528 = 12.768.1595

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.528 = 12.768.1595
Publication Number yxy
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, dark 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) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The text is heavily faded.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed centerd on the surface of the potsherd, with broad upper and lower margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 87 0
Column Height (in mm) 40 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 87 x 40 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for poll tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Bienchisi is confirmed of having paid the rate for the poll tax for the 31st regnal year in an amount of 2 stater.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11Transcription and translation of l 1 and 3 by Jan Moje, according to infra red image.r.wṱ By-nꜥḫ
2ẖr ḥḏ n ꜥpe sttr 2
3ḥsb.t 31

1 Transcription and translation of l 1 and 3 by Jan Moje, according to infra red image.
convex
1That which was paid cash by Bienchis, son of ⸢..?..⸣
2for the poll tax: 2 staters.
331st regnal year ⸢..?..⸣
16.580.528_BROO0337_S1
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8605 man Bienchis (Brookl 16.580.240 AND .528) By-ʿnḫ (Brookl 16.580.240) pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Augustus 31 1 CE 2 CE Dating by content. Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

16.580.528_BROO0337_S1
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16.580.528_BROO0338_S1
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16.580.528_BROO0339_S1
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307442
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 69492
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 307442 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.528 = 12.768.1595), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).