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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Berlin P. 10734

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 10734
Publication Number	SB VI 9604, 20
Current Location	magazine
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	archaeological excavation Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director) 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	partage
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1906 and 1906

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, red
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	74 mm \| 103 mm \| 8 mm
Dating	between 115 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 Palachemis
Comments on Text Layout	4 lines, other side uninscribed
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for contribution for those who have fled (merismos anakechorekoton)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Palachemis scribe
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Didymion praktor (through the scribe Palachemis), for the contribution for those who have fled (μερισμὸς ἀνακεχωρηκότων), paid by Petorzmethis and his brother Pachnoubis, both sons of Phanophis (archive?).
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Comment on Gender	two brothers as taxpayers
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	Διδυμίων πράκτωρ . διέγραψεν ¹l. διέγραψα(ν) Πετορζμῆθις
2	Φανώφεως καὶ Παχνοῦβις ἀδελφὸς
3	ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ ἀνακεχωρηκότων δραχμὰς ῥυπαρὰς τέσσαρας τετρώβολον (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ (τετρώβολον).
4	(ἔτους) ιη Τραιανοῦ Ἀρίστου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Μεσορὴ κη.

¹ l. διέγραψα(ν)

convex

1	Didymion, collector. Thus have paid Petorzmethis,
2	son of Phanophis, and Pachnoubis, his brother,
3	for the contribution for those who have fled, four drachmas four obols brutto, = 4 dr. 4 ob.
4	Year 18 of Traianus Optimus Caesar the lord, Mesore 28.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4451	man	Didymion praktor	Διδυμίων	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Trajan	18	Mesore	28	115 August 21 CE	date in text;

Literature

Kiessling, Emil & Preisigke, Friedrich & Bilabel, Friedrich & Rupprecht, Hans-Albert, Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten VI (1963). (9604, 20)
Müller, Wolfgang, Griechische Ostraka aus Elephantine/Syene II (1958). (7-8, no. 20.)
Nachtergael, Georges, La collection Marcel Hombert, T. 2: Nouveaux documents grecs d'Égypte et addenda au Tome 1 (2003). (44)
Shelton, John C., Ostraca from Elephantine in the Fitzwilliam Museum. (222)

DatasetID	2872
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	02872
Trismegistos	19127
Papyri.info	ddbdp/sb;6;9604_20
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 2872 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 10734), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning; Ruth Duttenhöfer.