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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.316

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.316
Publication Number	P.Brook. 121
Current Location	New York, Brooklyn Museum
Publication Status	partly 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	donation 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]

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 141 and 142
Criteria for Dating	date according to tax collector's time of office and his scribe's term
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at left and bottom. an earlier receipt was sponged off. the receipt was given up after 1 line.

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 and bottom, an earlier text was sponged off. after 1 line the receipt was given up.
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Sarapion 1?
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	1
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	draft of a receipt
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sarapion scribe 1
Text Types	documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	draft of a receipt, given up after 1 line of writing
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. date probably year 5 of Antoninus, since the prescript Isidoros and Herakleides in this order only occurs in y. 5 of Antoninus.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12980	man	Herakleides misthotes	Ἡρακλείδης misthotes	Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius	05			141 CE 142 CE	date according to the collectors time of office;

 

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Literature

• Shelton, John C., Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca, and wooden tablets in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. (no. 121)

 

DatasetID	310099
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	18099
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.brook;;121
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310099 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.316), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.