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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Berlin P. 10788

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 10788
Publication Number	BGU VI 1459
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:
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director) Certainty:
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, medium brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	111 mm \| 96 mm \| 15 mm
Dating	between -69 and -40
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	marginal losses

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	marginal losses
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, ptolemaic, hand unknown
Comments on Text Layout	10 lines, other side uninscribed
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	10
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for the delivery of dates
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary \| receipt
Summary of Content	Aniketos, Anras and Pates, son of Psanis, acknowledge to have received from Ammonios, son of Papnos, the proper part of a 1/3 + 1/60 for the god.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	date incertain/alternative
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	Ἀνίκητος ¹or rather Ἀνικήτης? καὶ
2	Ἀνρας̣ καὶ Πατ̣ῆ̣ς̣
3	Ψάνιος Ἀμμωνίῳ Πα̣π̣ν̣-
4	ου χαίριν² l. χαίρειν . ἔχο̣μ̣ε̣ν̣ ³corr. ex ̣χο̣μ̣ε̣ν̣
5	παρὰ σοῦ φοίνικας
6	τὸ ἐπιβάλλον τῷ
7	θεῷ μερο ⁴ l. μέρο&lt;ς> τρίτον
8	καὶ ἑξηκοστόν.
9	οὐθέν σοι ἐνκαλοῦμε̣ν̣.
10	(ἔτους) ιγ Θὼτ κε̣.

¹ or rather Ἀνικήτης?
² l. χαίρειν
³ corr. ex ̣χο̣μ̣ε̣ν̣
⁴ l. μέρο<ς>

convex

1	Aniketos and
2	Anras and Pates,
3	son(s?) of Psanis, to Ammonios, son of Papnou?
4	greetings. We have received
5	from you dates,
6	the proper part belonging
7	to the god, one third
8	and a sixtieth.
9	We have no claim on you,
10	year 13, Thot 25.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4437	man	Ammonios, son of Papnou? (deliverer of dates? bgu)	Ἀμμώνιος	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios XII Neos Dionysos	13	Thoth	25	-69 October 3 BCE	date in text, emperor incertain, alternative dates;

Literature

Schubart, Wilhelm & Kühn, Ernst, BGU VI: Papyri und Ostraka der Ptolemäerzeit (1922). (no. 1459)

DatasetID	2885
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	02885
Trismegistos	4743
Papyri.info	ddbdp/bgu;6;1459
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 2885 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 10788), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning; Ruth Duttenhöfer.