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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
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

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Pytwtrs ḥḏ qd ½
2 n ḥḏ ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 33 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḥtr sꜣ Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ 1Reading of the name contra Pasenis in the publication by Jan Moje.
3n ḥsb.t 34 ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 26

1 Reading of the name contra Pasenis in the publication by Jan Moje.
1Reading of the day by Jan Moje, contra the publication.
convex


1 Reading of the day by Jan Moje, contra the publication.
4ἁλικῆς τοῦ
5λδ (δραχμὴν) α
convex
1Thus has brought Pythodoros ½ (silver) kite
2(for) the salt tax (for) the 33rd regnal year. Issued by Phatres, son of Hartophachtes,
3in the 34th regnal year, 26th of Thoth.
convex

4For the salt tax of the
534th year: 1 drachma.
Brook 16.580.261_S1_00
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Brook 16.580.261ir_S1_
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CUR.16.580.261_S1_002
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CUR.16.580.261_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

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;

 

Pictures

Brook 16.580.261_S1_00
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Brook 16.580.261ir_S1_
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CUR.16.580.261_S1_002
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CUR.16.580.261_S2_001
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Literature

 

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).