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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.401

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.401
Publication Number O.Wilb. 23
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 137 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 unknown.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contribution for river police boats and certificates of billeting (merismos potamophylakidon and diplon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of Psanmous and Petesouchos, praktores of Elephantine, for the contribution for river police boats and certificates of billeting, paid by Zmentpos, son of Petorzmethis and Tisatis
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ψανμ̣οῦ̣ς καὶ Πετεσοῦχος
2πράκτορες Ἐλεφαντίνης . διέγραψεν Ζμεντπῶ̣[ς]
3Πετορζμ̣ήθου μητρὸς Τισᾶτις
4ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ ποταμοφυλακίδος καὶ διπλῶν
5κα (ἔτους) ἐπὶ λόγ(ου) ῥυπ(αρὰς) (δραχμὰς) δ. (ἔτους) κα
6Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου,
7Φαμενὼθ δ.
8Ψανμοῦς σεσημείωμαι (δραχμὰς) δ.
convex
1Psanmous and Petesouchos
2collectors at Elephantine. Thus has paid Zmentpos,
3son of Petorzmethis and the mother Tisatis,
4for the contribution for river police boats and for certificates of billeting
5of year 21, on account, 4 dr. brutto. Year 21
6of Hadrian Caesar the lord,
7Phamenoth 4.
8(2. hand) Psanmous, I have signed, 4 dr.
Brooklyn 16.580.401_S1
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Brooklyn 16.580.401_S2
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CUR.16.580.401_bw_S1_0
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4251 man Petesouchos praktor Πετεσουχος pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 21 Phamenoth 04 137 February 28 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

Brooklyn 16.580.401_S1
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Brooklyn 16.580.401_S2
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CUR.16.580.401_bw_S1_0
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CUR.16.580.401_bw_S1_0
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Literature

 

DatasetID 308622
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76535
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilb;;23
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308622 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.401), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.