Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.281

Inventory Number	Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.281
Publication Number	P.Brook. 53
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: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	“Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour.” Certainty: high
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 Type	ostracon
Dating	between 155 and 156
Criteria for Dating	date according to tax collector's time of office
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at right and bottom. upper left corner also missing

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 and bottom, upper left corner also missing
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of the scribe praktor Phanophis
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for the price of public dates ( time demosiou phoinikos)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Phanophis praktor
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Phanophis, praktor argyrikon of Elephantine, for the price of public dates (time demosiou phoinikos), paid by Menophilos, son of Orbais
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 2: hyper, without k[ai -?- l. 4: ap(o) dr. 20, 1 ob. dich. to (hekton), 3 dr. 3?ob.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Transcription

Translation

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1	Φανῶφις πράκτωρ ἀργυρικῶν Ἐ̣λεφ(αντίνης) ̣ διέγρ(αψεν)
2	Μηνόφιλος Ὀρβάιτος ὑ̣π(ὲρ) ¹ed. κ̣[αὶ -ca.?- ὑπ(ὲρ) τιμ(ῆς) δη(μοσίου)
3	φοίνικος γενήματος ιη (ἔτους) ὀνόματος Πετεσούχου Ἁρπ(αήσεως) ²ed. [Ἁρπ(αήσεως) ἀπὸ
4	ἀπὸ ³ed. ῥυπ(αρῶν) (δραχμῶν) κ (ὀβολοῦ) (διχάλκου) τὸ (ἕκτον) ⁴ϛ΄΄ , (δραχμὰς) γ (τριώβολον), κα̣ὶ̣
5	-?- ̣ -?-
5+y	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

¹ ed. κ̣[αὶ -ca.?- ὑπ(ὲρ)
² ed. [Ἁρπ(αήσεως) ἀπὸ
³ ed. ῥυπ(αρῶν)
⁴ ϛ΄΄

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1	Phanophis, collector of money taxes at Elephantine. Thus has paid
2	Menophilos, son of Orbais, for the price of public
3	dates of the harvest of year 18 on account of Petesouchos, son of Harpaesis,
4	of (the total of) 20 dr. 1 ob. 2 ch. the sixth part, 3 dr. 3 ob., and
5	---
5+y	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Places (read out from edition)

λεφ(αντίνης) (places.xml#3)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
1250	man	Menophilos senior, son of Orbais and of the mother Tisatis	Μηνόφιλος μείζων Ὀρβάειδος μητρὸς Τισάτιος	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius	19			155 CE 156 CE	date according to the collectors time of office;

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DatasetID	308610
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	18077
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.brook;;53
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308610 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.281), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.