Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.234

Inventory Number	Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.234
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

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 Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, dark brown
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The lower left corner is lost today
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

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 the last five lines are lost. Alle line beginnings are faded.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Narrow line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the (preserved) potsherd.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	12	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	79	0
Column Height (in mm)	76	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	79 x 76+y	0

Modern Title	receipt for date palms
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Harpaesis, son of Petosorsmetis (II.)
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	Harpaesis, son of Petosorsmetis, writes to Peteosoroeris, son of Peteesis, and whose brother Harpaesis, concerning that the sender has claim to money for date-palm fruits(?) on the adressees. Perhaps we wants them to pay him. He also points out that the adressees have to pay tax for the fruits. The rest of the letter is too much destroyed to be able to reconstruct the content.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Transcription

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1	Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-ns-mt pꜣ nty ḏd n Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-wr
2	sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏj-ꜣs.t ı͗rm Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t pꜣy=f sn tw=y ꜥš r.ı͗r=ṯn
3	tw=y m-sꜣ=ṯn n pꜣ ḥḏ tke n bn.t nty mtw=y ꜥš
4	m sꜣ=ṯn n.ı͗m=f ı͗n ı͗w=y n Ybꜣ
5	Pstꜥ ¹It is also possible that this is a foreign toponym. mtw=ṯn ḏı͗ ḥtr
6	ı͗rm nꜣ gw 2
7	mtw=ṯn mḥ pꜣ ḥtr nty(?) Mḥel
8	n ḥsb.t 11 n ꜣtryns Gysrs ²Reading of the epithet by J. Moje.
9	tꜣ s.t
10	m-bꜣḥ
11
12

¹ It is also possible that this is a foreign toponym.
² Reading of the epithet by J. Moje.

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1	Harpaesis, son of Petosorsmetis is the one who speaks to Petosoroeris,
2	son of Peteese, and Harpaesis, his brother: ‘I am citing you.
3	I have claim on you for the money of date-palm fruits(?) for which I am citing
4	you. Shall I ..?.. it in Elephantine
5	..?.. Pesta. And you are to give a tax
6	..?.. together with two gu..?.. 2 ..?..
7	and you are to pay ı͗n full the tax which(?) ..?.. Mhel
8	in the 11th regnal year of Hadrianus Caesar
9	the place ..?.. [///]
10	before ..?.. [///]
11	..?.. [///]
12	..?.. [///]

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8600	man	Harpaesis, son of Peteesis	Ḥr-pa-Ꜣs.t (sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı-ꜣs.t)	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	11			126 CE 127 CE	internal dating, with name of the ruler.;

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DatasetID	307449
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	69609
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 307449 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.234), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).