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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.248

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.248
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 Broken off at all four sides.
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 a small part of the text is preserved.
Script, Primary Demotic
Language, Primary Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The piece is too fragmentary to obtain information on the text layout. Possibly the lower part remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 33 0
Column Height (in mm) 20 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+33+y x x+20 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of names(?)
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content Rest of a list containing two male names, one with filiations.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures

convex

x+1[///]
x+2Bien[chis] [///]
x+3Pachnoumis, son of Pelaias [///]
16.580.248_BROO0312_S1
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16.580.248_BROO0313_S1
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16.580.248_BROO0314_S1
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8640 man Bienchis [///] (Brokl 16.580.248) By-Ꜥnḫ [///] pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty -332 BCE -30 BCE Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

16.580.248_BROO0312_S1
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16.580.248_BROO0313_S1
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16.580.248_BROO0314_S1
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307454
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 89090
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 307454 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.248), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).