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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.398

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Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.398
Publication Number	O.Wilb. 20
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)	Wilbour, Charles Edwin 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
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	"Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour." Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 131 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Kakrenos
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for contribution for fishing boats and river police boats and guard posts
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Kakren scribe
Text Types	documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of praktor Kalasiris for the merismos of fishing boats, police boats and guard posts, written by Kakrenos, paid by Pempsas alias Phamais, son fo Herieus and Soeris in year 15 of Hadrian
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 5 name of scribe: Kakrenos: cf. O.Eleph. DAIK 42 (1459)
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
18355	man	Kakren scribe	Κακρην	Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	15	Phamenoth	19	131 March 15 CE	date in text;

 

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Literature

• Aly, Shereen A., Seven Ostraca from the Egyptian Museum featuring the tax collector Kalasiris and his Entourage (2019). (216)
• Pestman, Pieter Willem & Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Hoogendijk, Francisca A.J. & Kruit, Nico & Verhoogt, A.M.F.W., BL 9: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band IX (1995). (407)
• Pestman, Pieter Willem & Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Verhoogt, A.M.F.W. & Hoogendijk, Francisca A.J. & Kruit, Nico, BL 10: Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band X (1998). (303)
• Préaux, Claire, Les ostraca grecs de la Collection Charles Edwin Wilbour au Musée de Brooklyn. (1935). (no. 20)
• Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Verhoogt, A. M. F. W. & Kruit, Nico, BL 11: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band XI (2002). (303)
• Shelton, John C., Critical Notes on Greek Papyrus and Ostracon Texts (1970). ()
• Shelton, John C., Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca, and wooden tablets in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. (p. 148)

 

DatasetID	308618
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	76532
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilb;;20
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308618 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.398), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.