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	(Unknown [not mentioned in 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

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convex

1	pꜣ rn n nꜣ
2	Pa-H̱nm sꜢ PꜢ-ḏı͗-nfr-ḥtp
3	Pa-H̱nm sꜢ PꜢ-ḏı͗-nfr-ḥtp sꜣ
4	By-ʿnḫ sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-n-ḏl ¹Cf. the doubtful name Ḏlḥꜣ: Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 1377.
5	PꜢ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r sꜣ Ns-mte
6	PꜢ-šr-n-H̱nm sꜢ Ns-mte
7	I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜢ PꜢ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r
8	By-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
10	Pa-H̱nm sꜢ Nḫṱ-
11	PꜢ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r sꜢ
12	I͗y-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

1	The list of [///]
2	OK Pachnoumis, son of Petenephotes.
3	OK Pachnoumis, son of Petenephotes, son of [///].
4	OK Bienchis, son of Psendjel[///].
5	OK Petosiris, son of Espmetis [///].
6	OK Psenchnoumis, son of Espmetis.
7	OK Imouthes, son of Petosiris.
8	[[Bienchis, his brother]] OK Pa..? .
9	OK ..?..abek.
10	OK Pachnoumis, son of Necht[///].
11	OK Petosiris, son of [///].
12	OK I[mouthes] [///].

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Places (read out from edition)

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.;

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Literature

Hughes, G. R. & Muhs, Brian & Vinson, S., Catalog of Demotic Texts in the Brooklyn Museum. (no. 178)

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).