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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.292

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.292
Publication Number P.Brook. 64
Current Location New York, Brooklyn Museum
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery excavation or purchase
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) “Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour.”
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution donation
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 129 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, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for custom duties
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of the taxfarmer Ammonios and partners for custom duties for 6 artabae of wheat, in year 13 of Hadrian, paid by Petorsmetis, son of T?.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἀ̣μμώνιος καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ τελ(ῶναι)
2πεντηκοστῆς λιμένος Σοήνης διʼ Ἀ̣μμωνίδου(?) γραμματ(έως)
3Πετορσμῆτι Τ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ χαίρειν. ἀπέ-
4χομεν παρὰ σοῦ τω 1l. τὸ γινόμεν(ον) τέλ(ος) ὧν ̣ ̣
5ήγαγες (πυροῦ) (ἀρταβῶν) ϛ. (ἔτους) ιγ Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος
6τοῦ κυρίου, Με -?-

1 l. τὸ
convex
1Ammonios and the associate tax farmers
2of the two-percent duty at the port of Syene, acting through their secretary Ammonides?
3to Petorsmetis, son of T---, greetings. We have
4received from you the proper tax on the im-/ex-
5port of 6 artabae of wheat. Year 13 of Hadrianus Caesar
6the lord, Me--- (month).
Brooklyn 16.580.292_S1
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Brooklyn 16.580.292_S2
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Σοήνης (places.xml#8)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    4449 man Ammonides grammateus Ἀμωνίδης Greek, Ancient

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Hadrian 13 129 CE date in text: month incertain, either Mechir or Mesore;

     

    Pictures

    Brooklyn 16.580.292_S1
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    Brooklyn 16.580.292_S2
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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 310097
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 18086
    Papyri.info ddbdp/p.brook;;64
    Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 310097 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.292), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.