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Ostr. Berlin P. 4168

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 4168
Publication Number	O.Wilck. 296
Current Location	magazine | papyrus depository
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	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	find or purchase Certainty: high
Date of Discovery Term. Ante / Post Quem Non	between 25 12 1889 and
Finder (= First Purchaser)	(unknown) Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	(unknown)
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 25 12 1889 and 1889
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Wiedemann, Alfred Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Erman, Adolf Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, red
Size (Height | Width | Thickness)	94 mm | 91 mm | 5 mm
Dating	between 178 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at right

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 right
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Minucius Niger
Comments on Text Layout	8 lines, right side broken off, other side uninscribed
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for Behen nuts
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Minucius Niger assistant
Text Types	documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Ulpius Cerealis and Domitius, son of Domitius, tax farmers of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through the assistant Minucius Niger, for the third of behen-nuts, delivered (in kind: matia) by Tametis, in year 18 of Commodus.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. name: Tametis, tax: trites [nom() myrob()], date: year 18!
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Woman
Comment on Gender	woman as taxpayer
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
26435	man	Domitius, son of Domitius, misthotes	Δομίτιος Δομιτίου	Latin

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Commodus	18	Epagomenen		178 August 24 CE 178 August 28 CE	date in text, year corrected: 18 of Commodus Zur Datierung vgl. K. A. Worp, Komm. zu O.Cair. 75, 1 = BL VIII 539.;

 

Literature

• Bilabel, Friedrich, BL 2,1: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band II, 1 (1929). (54)
• Gallazzi, Claudio & Pintaudi, Rosario & Worp, Klaas A., Ostraca Greci del Museo Egizio del Cairo. (71, comm. 1)
• Pestman, Pieter Willem & Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Hoogendijk, Francisca A.J., BL 8: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band VIII (1992). (539)
• Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. II. Texte (1899). (no. 296)

 

DatasetID	1226
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	01226
Trismegistos	76859
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilck.;296
Author	BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 1226 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 4168), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer.