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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.261 = 12.768.1568

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.261 = 12.768.1568
Publication Number	P.Brook. 33 / P.Brookl. Dem. 74
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
Dating	between -252 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
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)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Complete. Some signs are faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	l. 5: documentary, Greek: hand of Petepiphis!
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered on the potsherd, with small lateral and upper margins.The lower right crotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	70	0
Column Height (in mm)	70	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	70 x 70	0

 

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis Phatres, son of Hartophnachtes
Text Types	documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	Pythodoros is confirmed by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes, of having paid the rate for the salt tax for the 33rd regnal year, in an amount of 0,5 kite. Greek subscription mentioning tax type, regnal year, and amount in Greek currency, very probably the hand of Petepiphis.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Greek subscription: of Petepiphis (from the hand) with tax type, year, and amount in Greek currency.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	text ok, hand of Petepiphis; origin: Elephantine!
Multilingualism	Script = Language Bilingual
Gender	Man

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8520	man	Pythodoros	Pytwtrs	Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	34	Thoth	26	-252 November 15 BCE	Internal dating, without name of the ruler. financial year 34 = eg. 33;

 

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Literature

• Hughes, G. R. & Muhs, Brian & Vinson, S., Catalog of Demotic Texts in the Brooklyn Museum. (no. 74)
• Shelton, John C., Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca, and wooden tablets in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. (no. 33)
• Vleeming, Sven P., A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents in A. D. 2005-2006 (2007). (supp. 2, 7)

 

DatasetID	307447
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	5030
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.brook;;33
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307447 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.261 = 12.768.1568), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).