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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.265

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.265
Publication Number P.Brook. 37
Current Location magazine
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 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) Wilbour, Charles Edwin
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 164 and 165
Criteria for Dating date according to scribe's time of activity
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top and left

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave (inside)
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, neat hand of Serenos
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia) and trade tax (cheironaxion)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of unknown collector(s), written by Serenos, for poll tax and trade tax, between year 4 and 9 of Marcus Aurelius and Verus.
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr: l. 1 ] .. [ l. 2: [--- hyp. laog()] e (etous), date: y. 5 =
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1 -?- ̣ ̣ -?- 1ed. ] ὑπ(ὲρ) [
x+2 -?- ὑπ(ὲρ) λαο(γραφίας)ε̣ (ἔτους) 2 ed. [δεκαεπτὰ ὀβο]λ̣(όν), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολὸς) α, καὶ ὑπὲρ χ̣ει-
x+3ρω(ναξίου) δραχ(μὰς) δεκαδυω 3 l. δέκα δύο , (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιβ.
x+4(ἔτους) ̣ Ἀντωνί̣νου καὶ Οὐήρου
x+5Καισάρων τῶν κυρίων.
x+6 -?- ι̅β̅.

1 ed. ] ὑπ(ὲρ) [
2 ed. [δεκαεπτὰ ὀβο]λ̣(όν), (γίνονται)
3 l. δέκα δύο
convex
x
x+1---
x+2--- for poll tax of year 5?, 17 dr. 1 ob., and for trade
x+3tax twelve drachmae, = 12 dr.
x+4Year x of Antoninus and Verus
x+5Caesares the lords,
x+6(month) 12.
Brooklyn 16.580.265_S1
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Brooklyn 16.580.265_S2
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CUR.16.580.265_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
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
Marcus Aurelius + Verus 05 12 164 CE 165 CE date according to activity of scribe Serenos in y. 5.;

 

Pictures

Brooklyn 16.580.265_S1
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Brooklyn 16.580.265_S2
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CUR.16.580.265_bw_S1_0
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309375
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 18061
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.brook;;37
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309375 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.265), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.