Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.617v+r

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Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.617v+r
Publication Number	P.Brook. 17
Current Location	New York, Brooklyn Museum
Comments on Inventory	Bequest of Miss Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour.
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	unpublished

Ancient Provenance Site	Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details	purchased in Aswan for 8 piasters
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	find or purchase Certainty: high
Date of Discovery Term. Ante / Post Quem Non	between 12 1 1882 and
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Wilbour, Charles Edwin Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	unknown
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
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Localization of Text on Object	verso/recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	perpendicular (verso)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	broken at bottom
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	13	1
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Height of Line / Letter

Modern Title	letter of Serenus to his brother Cerealis
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	Letter of Serenus to Cerealis on business matters, dates, jars, and other commodities
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

1	Σερῆνος Κερεαλίῳ ἀδελφῷ χαίρειν.
2	πρὸ μὲν πάντων σε ἀσπάζομαι μετὰ τῶν
3	ἀβασκάντων σου τέκνω̣ν καὶ τ̣ῆς συμ-
4	βίου. κόμισον διὰ τω ¹ l. τοῦ ἀναδιδόντο̣ς τὰ γράμ-
5	ματα τὰ δοθέντα Ἀμμωνίῳ φοιν̣ίκια καὶ
6	τὰ εὑρεθέντα νῦν ἑξάχοα ἕξ καλοῦ δίγμα-
7	τος ² l. δείγμα\|τος ἐπιγραφὴν ἔχων ³ l. ἔχοντα εἰς ὄν̣ομά μου, πεντάδια̣
8	διὰ Ὡρίωνος πέντε , κοκούμια δέκα , μαγίδες ⁴ l. μαγίδας
9	πέντε . παρ̣ακαλῶ σε, περιποίησον τὰ ὑποκά-
10	τω τοῦ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣η̣σ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣μ ̣ ̣ ̣ς̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ἀπὸ
11	τῆς ̣ω̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣σα -ca.?-
12	-ca.?- σε -ca.?-
13	περὶ ὧν χρήζ̣εις -ca.?-

¹ l. τοῦ
² l. δείγμα|τος
³ l. ἔχοντα
⁴ l. μαγίδας

Κερεαλίῳ ἀδελφῷ -ca.?-

1	Serenus to Cerealius his brother, greetings.
2	First of all I embrace you together with your
3	children (may the evil eye not touch them) and your
4	wife. Send by the man who brings the letter
5	the dates that were given to Ammonios and
6	the six-chous measures of good quality which we have now found,
7	addressed in my name;
8	and by Horion send five pentadia, ten kettles and five
9	kneading-troughs. Please, secure the ---
10	underneath ---
11	---
12	---
13	about what you need ---

1	To his brother Cerealius ---

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
38975	man	Ammonios (third party)	Ἀμμωνίῳ	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				200 CE 299 CE	after date on recto (214-217 CE);

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DatasetID	318274
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	30803
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.brook;;17
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 318274 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.617v+r), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.