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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.346

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.346
Publication Number P.Brook. 151 descr.
Current Location New York, Brooklyn Museum
Publication Status partly published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery 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) Wilbour, Charles Edwin
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 118 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left and right side.

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 right.
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, Roman cursive, hand of Sarapion, scribe of Sanmous
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of praktor Sanmous for contribution for river police boats of year 3 and 2 of Hadrian; written by the scribe Sarapion.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text new: full edition, corr. to description
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Σανμ̣ο̣ῦς πράκτωρ. διέγραψεν ΝΝ -?-
2 -3- ̣ ̣ ̣ ? ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ ποταμοφυλ(ακίδος) γ (ἔτους) ἀργ(υρίου) (δραχμὰς) δύο,
3(γἰνονται) (δραχμὰς) β, καὶ ὑπὲρ β (ἔτους) τριώβολον ̣?. (ἔτους) γ Ἁδριανοῦ -?-
4τοῦ κυρίου, Ἁθὺρ κ̅ε̣̅. Σαραπίων γραμματεὺς ἔγραψα.
convex
1Sanmous collector. Thus has paid NN, son of NN
2---, for the contribution for river police boats of year 3 two silver drachmas,
3= 2 dr., and for year 2 three obols. Year 3 of Hadrian
4the lord, Hathyr 25. Sarapion, scribe, I have written.
Brook 16.580.346_S1_00
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4776 man Sanmous praktor Σανμοῦς pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 03 Hathyr 25 118 November 21 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

Brook 16.580.346_S1_00
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Brook 16.580.346ir_S1_
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16.580.346_view1_S1_00
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16.580.346_view2_S2_00
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Literature

 

DatasetID 315782
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 315782 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.346), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.