Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.458 = 12.768.1630

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Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.458 = 12.768.1630
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	Possibly complete. The last month is missing, but Hughes assumes that this line never had been written.
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)	Very well preserved. The last month is missing, but Hughes assumes that this (ninth) line never had been written.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Irregular line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with only the upper left crotch remaining uninscribed. The text is aligned to the right rim with a small but regular margin.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	18	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	136	0
Column Height (in mm)	176	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	136 x 176	0

Text Content

Modern Title	list of days for illumination before Osiris Espmetis
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| cultic archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	religious \| polytheistic Egyptian \| divination
Summary of Content	A detailed list of all "days of illumination" in a year, characterized as being done before (a statue?) of the divined person Osiris Espmetis during divinatory activities.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

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1	ḥsb.t 22 ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 10 nꜣ ṱ ꜣ .w ¹Cf. Hoffmann in FS Burkard, 206. n sḥt
2	m-bꜣḥ Wsı͗r Ns-pꜣ-mtry
3	tꜣ ms.t ²According to Hoffmann in FS Burkard, G. R. Hughes - B. Muhs - S. Vinson, Catalog of Demotic Texts in the Brooklyn Museum, Chicago 2005 (OIC 29) (= P. Brooklyn Dem.), no. 147 read here hrw (n) ms. Wsı͗r sw 1 2 sw 3, sw 4, sw 5
4	ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 1 sw 2 sw 3 sw 4 sw 5 sw 7 sw 9 sw 19,
5	ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 21, sw 22.
6	ı͗bd 2 ꜣḫ.t sw 1 sw 7 sw 9 sw 20 sw 22 sw 25 sw 26 sw 27
7	sw 28 sw 29 sw ꜥrqı͗
8	ı͗bd 3 ꜣḫ.t sw 1 sw 2 sw 3 sw 4 sw 5 sw 6 sw 7 sw 8 sw 9
9	sw 12 sw 13 sw 14 sw 29
10	ı͗bd 4 ꜣḫ.t sw 1 sw 6 sw 7 sw 9 sw 10 sw 24 sw 26 sw 27 sw 28 sw ꜥrqı͗
11	ı͗bd 1 pr.t sw 1 sw 7 sw 9 sw 12 sw 21
12	ı͗bd 2 pr.t sw 1 sw 7 sw 9 sw 11 sw 21 sw 27 sw 28
13	ı͗bd 3 pr.t sw 1 sw 5 sw 7 sw 9 sw 15 sw 17 sw 28
14	ı͗bd 4 pr.t sw 1 sw 7 sw 9 sw 11 sw 12 sw 13 sw 14 sw 15
15	sw 16 sw 17 sw 18 sw 28
16	ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 1 sw 2 sw 7 sw 9 sw 21 sw 22
17	ı͗bd 2 šmw sw 1 sw 7 sw 8 sw 9 sw 10 sw 21
18	ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 9(?)sw 10(?) sw 27

¹ Cf. Hoffmann in FS Burkard, 206.
² According to Hoffmann in FS Burkard, G. R. Hughes - B. Muhs - S. Vinson, Catalog of Demotic Texts in the Brooklyn Museum, Chicago 2005 (OIC 29) (= P. Brooklyn Dem.), no. 147 read here hrw (n) ms.

convex

1	22nd regnal year 22, 10th of Thoth. The times of illumination
2	before Osiris Espmetis
3	Day of birth of Osiris, day 1 2 day 3, day 4, day 5
4	Thoth: day 1 day 2 day 3 day 4 day 5 day 7 day 9 day 19,
5	Thoth: day 21, day 22.
6	Phaophi: day 1 day 7 day 9 day 20 day 22 day 25 day 26 day 27
7	day 28 day 29 day 30
8	Hathyr: day 1 day 2 day 3 day 4 day 5 day 6 day 7 day 8 day 9
9	day 12 day 13 day 14 day 29
10	Choiak: day 1 day 6 day 7 day 9 day 10 day 24 day 26 day 27 ´day 28 day 30`
11	Tybi: day 1 day 7 day 9 day 12 day 21
12	Mecheir: day 1 day 7 day 9 day 11 day 21 day 27 day 28
13	Phamenoth: day 1 day 5 day 7 day 9 day 15 day 17 day 28
14	Pharmouthi: day 1 day 7 day 9 day 11 day 12 day 13 day 14 day 15
15	day 16 day 17 day 18 day 28
16	Pachons: day 1 day 2 day 7 day 9 day 21 day 22
17	Payni: day 1 day 7 day 8 day 9 day 10 day 21 18\| Epeiph: day 9(?)day 10(?)[_] day 27

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8060	not applicable	(No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text)	(No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text)	(none)

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius	22	Thoth	10	158 September 6 CE	Dating by content. Dating by palaeography. Dating on astonomical reasons (F. Hoffmann).;

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Literature

DatasetID	307444
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	89008
Author	Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307444 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.458 = 12.768.1630), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).