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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.556 = 12.768.1563+1611

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.556 = 12.768.1563+1611
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) "Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour."
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, dark brown
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The entire left part is broken away in at lest three flakes.
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 endings of all lines are faded.
Script, Primary Middle to Late Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic - Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text shows a broad right margin. The other sides are undecidable due to lost parts.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 12 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 84 0
Column Height (in mm) 155 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 84+y x 155+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of priests on-duty
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content List of names of priests on-duty in the temple, presumably the Chnoum temple. Each name is preceeded by a checking mark dot for "OK" or something else.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1pꜣ rn n nꜣ
2 Pa-H̱nm sꜢ PꜢ-ḏı͗-nfr-ḥtp
3Pa-H̱nm sꜢ PꜢ-ḏı͗-nfr-ḥtp sꜣ
4By-ʿnḫ sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-n-ḏl 1Cf. the doubtful name Ḏlḥꜣ: Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 1377.
5PꜢ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r sꜣ Ns-mte
6PꜢ-šr-n-H̱nm sꜢ Ns-mte
7I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜢ PꜢ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r
8By-Ꜥnḫ 2This name was written below another name currently unreadable, not over as mentioend in the publication. The second name was that one which was preceeded by the checking mark dot.pꜣy=f snPꜣ-..?.. 3Suggestion J. Moje.
9-ꜥbk
10Pa-H̱nm sꜢ Nḫṱ-
11PꜢ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r sꜢ
12I͗y-m-ḥtp

1 Cf. the doubtful name Ḏlḥꜣ: Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 1377.
2 This name was written below another name currently unreadable, not over as mentioend in the publication. The second name was that one which was preceeded by the checking mark dot.
3 Suggestion J. Moje.
convex
1The list of [///]
2OK Pachnoumis, son of Petenephotes.
3OK Pachnoumis, son of Petenephotes, son of [///].
4OK Bienchis, son of Psendjel[///].
5OK Petosiris, son of Espmetis [///].
6OK Psenchnoumis, son of Espmetis.
7OK Imouthes, son of Petosiris.
8[[Bienchis, his brother]] OK Pa..? .
9OK ..?..abek.
10OK Pachnoumis, son of Necht[///].
11OK Petosiris, son of [///].
12OK I[mouthes] [///].
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8570 (uncertain) ..?..-abek (Brookl. 1563) ..?..-ꜥbk (Brookl. 1563) (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period -30 BCE 211 CE Dating by palaeography. Dating by content. Dating by prosopography.;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307448
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 89077
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 307448 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.556 = 12.768.1563+1611), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).