Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.269

Inventory Number	Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.269
Publication Number	P.Brook. 41
Current Location	New York, Brooklyn Museum
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	excavation or purchase Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	“Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour.” Certainty:
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
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	(not relevant) Certainty:

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 178 and 179
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at right, damaged at the surface

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	broken at right
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown) Iulius Serenus practor
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Julius Serenus, collector of money taxes of Elephantine, and Valerion and Apollonios, candidates for the collectorship,nominated instead of Harpchemis, for contribution of year 18 for the fortress close to Phoinike; with signature of Julius Serenus.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. tax title l. 5 and 6 amount on basis of O.Wilck. 271 and 272. translation???
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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1	Ἰούλιος Σερῆνος πράκτωρ ἀργ(υρικῶν) Ἐλεφ(αντίνης) καὶ Οὐαλ(ερίων)
2	κ̣αὶ Ἀπολλώνιος εἰς κλῆρ̣ον̣ πρακ(τορείας) ἀντὶ Ἁρπ(χήμιος).
3	διέγ̣ρ̣αψεν διέγραψε̣ν̣ -?-
4	παρ ̣ ̣ν̣ ̣-?- μερι-
5	σμὸν ιη (ἔτους) ὑπὲρ φρουρ̣ίου περὶ Φοινίκ(?) δραχ(μὰς) δέκα¹ed. ἀ̣ρ̣γ(υρίου) δ̣ρ̣α̣[χμὰς]
6	τέσσαρ̣ες ὀβολόν ἡμ̣ι̣οβ(έλιον) δίχ(αλκον). (ἔτους) ιθ// month, day.²ed. (γίνονται) ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣[-?- ]
7	Ἰούλιος Σερῆνος συναπέσχον.

¹ ed. ἀ̣ρ̣γ(υρίου) δ̣ρ̣α̣[χμὰς]
² ed. (γίνονται) ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣[-?- ]

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1	Iulius Serenus, collector of money taxes of Elephantine and Valerion
2	and Apollonios, candidates for the collectorship in place of Harpchemis.
3	Thus has paid ---
4	Par--- ? --- the
5	contribution of year 18 for the fortress close to Phoinike?, fourteen
6	drachmas, one and a half obol, two chalkoi. Year 19, month, day.
7	Iulius Serenus, I have received it (together with my collegues).

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Places (read out from edition)

Ἐλεφ(αντίνης) (places.xml#3)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
19985	man	Apollonios, candidate praktor	Ἀπολλώνιος	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius + Commodus	18			178 CE 179 CE	after year 18?***;

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DatasetID	308605
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	18066
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.brook;;41
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308605 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.269), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.