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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.296

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.296
Publication Number P.Brook. 68
Current Location New York, Brooklyn Museum
Publication Status partly 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
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
Dating between 71 and 80
Criteria for Dating date according to tax collector's time of office
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top and 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 top and left
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Melanthis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for an unidentified tax
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Fragment of a receipt of Melanthis
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1 -?- ἔτους
x+2 -?- Οὐεσπασιανοῦ
x+3 -?- Μελάνθις ἔγραψα.
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1 --- of year
x+2 --- of Vespasian
x+3--- Melanthis, I have written.
Brooklyn 16.580.296_S1
Reserved Copyright
Brooklyn 16.580.296_S2
Reserved Copyright
CUR.16.580.296_bw_S1_0
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
71 CE 80 CE date according to the collectors time of office;

 

Pictures

Brooklyn 16.580.296_S1
Reserved Copyright
Brooklyn 16.580.296_S2
Reserved Copyright
CUR.16.580.296_bw_S1_0
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 308614
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 18090
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.brook;;68
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308614 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.296), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.