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Ostr. Aberdeen ABDUA 24274

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Aberdeen ABDUA 24274
Publication Number P.Aberd. 91
Current Location Aberdeen, Marischal museum
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: low
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery find (unspecified)
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Wilson, Robert
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating of Object ca. 130
Dating between 100 and 199
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left and bottom
Comments on Object Ostrakon in red pottery, mentions areas of land and amounts of wheat, barley and vegetables, probably taxes or rents due to government Old labels on back

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 left and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, cursive, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Account of land and rent
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Account of land and rent, mentions names, areas of land and amounts of wheat, barley and vegetables, probably taxes or rents due to government
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender woman as landowner?
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)
Comment on Religion prophetes

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ὀννῶφρις προφήτης καὶ Σενψανσνῶς Χεμσνεῦτος
2(ἄρουραι) ε (δίμοιρον) ξδ´
3(πυροῦ) (ἀρτάβη) α δ´ κδ´ μη´ κριθῆς η´ λαχάνου γ ιβ´ μη´
4[Πετο]ρ̣ζμῆθις Καλασί̣ριος (ἀρούρης) (δίμοιρον) η´ ιϛ´ τὸ γ´ (ἀρούρης) δ´ ιϛ´
5 -?- (πυροῦ) ιβ´ λαχάνου μη´ ϙϛ´ κ̣ριθῆς (ἀρτάβης) ϙϛ´
6 -?- ̣χου ̣ ̣π( ) (ἄρουρα) α η´ ̣ ὑπὲρ Θινψῆνις
7 -?- ̣ (ἀρούρης) (δίμοιρον) η´ ιϛ´ γ̣´ μέρος ̣ ̣ ̣ -?-
7+y-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
convex
1Onnophris, the prophet, and Senpansnos, daughter of Chemsneus
25 arourae 2/3 1/64
3wheat 1 art. 1/4 1/24 1/48, barley 1/8, vegetables 3 1/12 1/48
4Petorzmethis, son of Kalasiris of 2/3 1/8 1/16 of an aroura, the third part 1/4 1/16 ar.
5--- of wheat 1/12, vegetables 1/48 1/96, barley 1/96 art.
6--- ? 1 aroua and 1/8 for Thinpsenis
7--- 2/3 1/8 1/16 of an aroura the third part ---
7+y-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Aberdeen_ABDUA_24274_S
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
13090 man Onnophris prophetes Onnophris prophetes Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
100 CE 199 CE palaeographical dating, ca. 130;

 

Pictures

Aberdeen_ABDUA_24274_S
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309379
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 24365
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.aberd;;91
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309379 (= Ostr. Aberdeen ABDUA 24274), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.