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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.412

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.412
Publication Number	O.Wilb. 34
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 181 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at right

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 right
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, cursive, hand of Antonius Iulas
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for monthly trade tax (cheironaxion meniaion)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Antonius Ioulas scribe
Text Types	documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of Antonios Iulas, taxfarmer of the monthly trade tax, for the month Mesore of year 21 of Commodus, and for Thoth of year 22, paid by Papremithes, son of Pachnoubis.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 7: ho a(utos) for al(las)!
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12555	man	Antonius Ioulas scribe	Antonios Ioulas	Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Commodus	22	Mesore	20	181 September 17 CE	date in text;

 

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Literature

• Duttenhöfer, Ruth, Korrekturen zu Ostraka aus Elephantine /Syene II. (155)
• 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. 34)
• Shelton, John C., Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca, and wooden tablets in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. (p. 149)

 

DatasetID	308628
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	76546
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilb;;34
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308628 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.412), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.