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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 |
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, dark brown |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
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) | 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 |
Modern Title | receipt for poll tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||
1 Transcription and translation of l 1 and 3 by Jan Moje, according to infra red image. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
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 |
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.; |
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). |