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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.293

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.293
Publication Number P.Brook. 65
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 of Object 1. Jh. v. Chr.
Dating between 100 and 199
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left

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 left
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand not known
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for harbour fees
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for harbour dues from the port officer (ho ascholoumenos ten hormophylakian) at Syene (Aswan), paid by a certain Petorzmethis, son of Terous.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. l. 2 names
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 -?- ἀσχ̣ολούμενος τ̣ὴν
2 -?- Πετορζμήθει 1ed. ̣ρ̣μ̣ιοθ( ) Τερ̣οῦτος 2ed. Τεοῦτος χαίρειν. 3ed. ἔ-
3 -?- ων ἀ̣γ̣ω̣γ̣ί̣ω̣ν̣ -?-
4 -?- ̣σ ̣ ̣χ̣ ̣ ̣ ἐπὶ λόγου
5 -?- Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου, Χοίακ γ.

1 ed. ̣ρ̣μ̣ιοθ( )
2 ed. Τεοῦτος
3 ed. ἔ-
convex
1--- in charge of the
2(harbour guard at Syene) to Petorzmethis, son of Terous, greetings.
3(I have received from you harbor dues for) cargoes ---
4--- on account
5(Year ? of ---) Caesar the lord, Choiak 3.
Brooklyn 16.580.293_S1
Reserved Copyright
Brooklyn 16.580.293_S2
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
24280 man Petorzmethis, son of Terous? Πε]τορζμῆθ(ι) Τερ̣οῦτος Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

Brooklyn 16.580.293_S1
Reserved Copyright
Brooklyn 16.580.293_S2
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 310098
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 27395
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.brook;;65
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 310098 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.293), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.