Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.276

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Inventory Number	Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.276
Publication Number	P.Brook. 48
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:
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 100 and 200
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at left and upper right corner

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

Modern Title	Receipt for tax on selling vetch
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sibylleus alias? Herakl?
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

Transcription

Translation

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

¹ ed. Σιῦ̣ν̣ις

convex

1	---os, son of Psenpnouth---
2	tax farmer of the vetch sellers ---
3	--- to Sokrates, son of Horos, greetings.
4	I have received from you the appropriate tax on vetch sellers
5	at Elephantine for two months, Tybi and
6	Mecheir, of the present 22nd year of Hadrianus
7	Caesar the lord, silver drachmas
8	six, = 6 dr. Year 22 of Hadrianus
9	Caesar the lord, Mecheir 30. Sibyll(eus)
10	alias Herakl(?), I have written for him,
11	since he does not know how to write.

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α̣ν̣τίνης (places.xml#3)

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

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

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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.