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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.276

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.276
Publication Number P.Brook. 48
Current Location New York, Brooklyn Museum
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 excavation or purchase
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) “Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour.”
Certainty:
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

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 100 and 200
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left and upper right corner

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) broken at left and upper right corner
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 11
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for tax on selling vetch
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of unknown collectors to Sokrates, son of Horos, for the fee for the vetch-sellers for the months Tybi and Mechir of year 22 of Hadrian, with signature of the scribe Sibylleus.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. l. 9: Name of the scribe: Sibyll(eus)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 -?- ̣ως Ψενπνουθ̣ -?-
2 -?- ς ὀρβιοπωλ-? ὑποσχ̣ε̣σ̣άριος -?-
3 -?- α̣της Σωκράτῃ Ὥρου χαίρειν -?-
4 -?- υ ̣ ̣ ̣γεινόμενον τέλος ὀρβιο̣-
5πωλῶν Ἐλεφα̣ν̣τίνης μηνῶν δύο Τῦβι καὶ
6Μεχεὶρ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος κ̣β̣ (ἔτους) Ἁδριανοῦ
7Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς
8ἕξ, (γίνονται(?)) (δραχμαὶ) ϛ (ἔτους) κβ Ἁδριανοῦ
9Καίσαρος̣ τοῦ κυρίου, Μεχεὶρ λ̅. Σιβυλλεὺς 1ed. Σιῦ̣ν̣ις
10ὁ καὶ Ἡρα̣κλ? ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ
11γράμματα μὴ εἰδότος.

1 ed. Σιῦ̣ν̣ις
convex
1---os, son of Psenpnouth---
2tax farmer of the vetch sellers ---
3--- to Sokrates, son of Horos, greetings.
4I have received from you the appropriate tax on vetch sellers
5at Elephantine for two months, Tybi and
6Mecheir, of the present 22nd year of Hadrianus
7Caesar the lord, silver drachmas
8six, = 6 dr. Year 22 of Hadrianus
9Caesar the lord, Mecheir 30. Sibyll(eus)
10alias Herakl(?), I have written for him,
11since he does not know how to write.
Brooklyn 16.580.276_S1
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Brooklyn 16.580.276_S2
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CUR.16.580.276_bw_S1_0
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Ἐλεφ (places.xml#3)
  • α̣ν̣τίνης (places.xml#3)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    20060 man Psenmouthes ? Ψενπνουθ--- Greek, Ancient

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Hadrian 22 Mecheir 30 138 February 24 CE date in text;

     

    Pictures

    Brooklyn 16.580.276_S1
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    Brooklyn 16.580.276_S2
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    CUR.16.580.276_bw_S1_0
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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 308607
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 18073
    Papyri.info ddbdp/p.brook;;48
    Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 308607 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.276), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.