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Inventory Number | Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.240 |
Publication Number | yxy |
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 | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Complete. | |
Script, Primary | Late Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Roman Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Very wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the square potsherd. It is written slightly sloping from the upper right to the lower left. All line endings are closed to the left rim. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 3 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 55 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 40 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 55 x 40 | 0 |
Modern Title | receipt for poll tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Bienchisi is confirmed by an unnamed person for having paid the rate for the poll tax for the 30th regnal year in an amount of 2 stater. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
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ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
8605 | man | Bienchis (Brookl 16.580.240 AND .528) | By-ʿnḫ (Brookl 16.580.240) | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Augustus | 30 | Pharmuthi | 15 | 1 April 10 CE | internal dating, with name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 307450 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 69489 |
Author | Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography) |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307450 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.240), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography). |