Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.246
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.246 |
| 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 |
Assembled from five scattered fragments, two small ones are missing in the middle. The left rim is slightly damaged. |
| 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) |
Only some signs are missing in the middle parts, due to some missing flakes. The beginning of the second line is faded. |
| Script, Primary |
Late Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Roman Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Wide line pitch.
The text is placed onto the upper two-thirds of the surface of the potsherd, without margin. The lower third remains uninscribed. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
5 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
75 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
43 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
75 x 43 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for poll tax |
| Ancient Archives |
private archive | inidividual tax payer |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
Petosorsmetis, son of Petosorsmetis, is confirmed by Petosorsmetis of having paid the rate for the poll tax for the 6th regnal year, in an amount of 4 stater. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | r.wṱ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-Ns-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-n-Wsı͗r-Ns-mtr
The first two attestations of Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-Ns-mtr in line 1 looks like Pꜣ-šr-..., and to they are transliterated in the edition. But this would be a hapax, and therefore, I consider this as an error and would read Pꜣ-ḏı͗-. Later I found out that this suggestion was already made by JENNES, Osiris-Smithis, 132. I thank F. HOFFMANN for bringing this to my attention.|
2 | | ẖr pꜣ ḥḏ n ꜥpe.t
n
ḥsb.t 6.t
n
Nrn |
3 | | Glwts Ksyrs Sbsṱ |
4 | | Grmnqs
ꜣwtgrṱr ı͗bd 3 šmw sw ꜥrqı͗
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5 | | sttr 4 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-Ns-mtr
ḥsb.t 6
1 The first two attestations of Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-Ns-mtr in line 1 looks like Pꜣ-šr-..., and to they are transliterated in the edition. But this would be a hapax, and therefore, I consider this as an error and would read Pꜣ-ḏı͗-. Later I found out that this suggestion was already made by JENNES, Osiris-Smithis, 132. I thank F. HOFFMANN for bringing this to my attention.
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1 | | That which was paid by Petosorsmetis, son of
Petosorsmetis, |
2 | | [for the poll] tax for the 6th regnal year of Nero |
3 | | Claudius Caesar Augustus |
4 | | Germanicus Imperator, 30th of Mesore:
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5 | | 4 staters. Issued by Petosorsmetis. 6th regnal year.
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Nero |
06 |
Mesore |
30 |
60 August 21 CE |
Internal dating, with name of the ruler.; |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
307452 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
69491 |
| Author |
Jan Moje |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 307452 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.246), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
