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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.279

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.279
Publication Number	P.Brook. 51
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: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	“Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour.” 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
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at left

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
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, probably hand of Marcus Annius Nemonianus
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for survey tax on palm groves
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Marcus Annius Nemonianus
Text Types	documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt for the survey tax on palm groves, probably written by Marcus Annius Nemonianus, collector of money taxes at Elephantine, paid by a certain Sansnos. ***
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. hand probably of Marcus Annius Nemonianus: supplies of l. 1-2! l. 3: tax title geometria is possible for praktores at that late time, cf. O.Leid. 184, corr. BGU XX 2849 date: Dec. 5 or 6, 190 or 191.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
24755	man	---, son of Sansnos and Thin---	… Σανσνῶτος Θιν…	Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Commodus		Hadrianos	09	190 December CE 191 CE	palaeographical dating according to the date of office of scribe: perhaps year 31-32 of Commodus, day: dec. 5 or 6.;

 

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Literature

• Shelton, John C., Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca, and wooden tablets in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. (no. 51)

 

DatasetID	308608
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	27392
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.brook;;51
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308608 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.279), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.