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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.240

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.240
Publication Number yxy
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 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.
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

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for poll tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1r.wṱ By-ꜥnḫ
2ẖr pꜣ ḥḏ n ꜥpe.t sttr 2.t
3n-ḏr.t ḥsb.t 30 ı͗bd 4 pr.t sw 15
convex
1That which was paid by Bienchis
2for the poll tax: 2 staters.
3Issued in the 30th regnal year, 15th of Pharmouthi.
CUR.16.580.240_R_001
Reserved Copyright
CUR.16.580.240_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

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

 

Dates

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;

 

Pictures

CUR.16.580.240_R_001
Reserved Copyright
CUR.16.580.240_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

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).