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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.414

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.414
Publication Number O.Wilb. 36
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) 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) "Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour."
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 220 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, cursive, hand of assistant Kopres
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for survey tax on palm groves (γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of Hierakapollon and Ammonios, tax farmers of the Sacred gate of Syene, through the assistant Kopres for geometria phoinikonon, paid by Paris, son of Hermon.
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
1Ἱερακαπόλλων καὶ
2Ἀμμῶνις μισθωταὶ
3ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης διʼ ἐμοῦ Κοπρήους
4βοηθοῦ . διέγραψεν Π̣άρις̣ Ἕ̣ρμωνο̣ς
5ὑπὲρ γ̣εομετρίας 1 l. γεωμετρίας φοινι̣κώνων λημμάτων β (ἔτους)
6ὀνόματος ἰδίου δραχμὴν μια̣ 2 l. μίαν ὀβολοὺς
7πέντε (γίνονται) (δραχμὴ) α (πεντώβολον).
8(ἔτους) γ Με̣χ̣εὶρ κγ.

1 l. γεωμετρίας
2 l. μίαν
convex
1Hierakapollon and
2Ammonios, tax farmers
3of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through me, Kopres,
4assistant. Thus has paid Paris, son of Hermon,
5for the survey tax of palm groves, for the accounting of year 2,
6on his own name, one drachma, oboloi
7five, = 1 dr. 5 ob.
8Year 3, Mechir 23.
Brooklyn 16.580.414_S1
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Brooklyn 16.580.414_S2
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
19400 man Ammonios (misthotes with Hierakapollon) Ἀμμῶνις Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Elagabal 03 Mecheir 23 220 February 18 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

Brooklyn 16.580.414_S1
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Brooklyn 16.580.414_S2
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Literature

 

DatasetID 310104
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76548
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilb;;36
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 310104 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.414), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.