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Ostr. Berlin P. 315

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 315
Publication Number	O.Wilck. 4
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	(unknown) Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	(unknown) Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	purchase
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Minutoli, Heinrich von Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Erman, Adolf Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating of Object	Aug 23 / Tiberius
Dating	between 19 and 19
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	surface and covered with residue

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)	suface damaged and abraded and covered with residue, hardly readable anymore
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax ( laographia)
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Currently unknown)
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt for poll tax of year 5 of Tiberius, paid by Zmethis, son of Pachnoubis.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	surface covered with residue, hardly readable
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	διαγεγράφηκεν
2	Ζμήθιος Παχνοῦβις
3	ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας τοῦ
4	πέμτου ¹ l. πέμπτου (ἔτους) Τιβερίου
5	Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ
6	Μεσορὴ λ ̣ ̣
7	(γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η.

¹ l. πέμπτου

convex

1	Thus has paid
2	Zmethis, son of Pachnoubis,
3	for poll tax of the
4	fifth year of Tiberius
5	Caesar Augustus,
6	Mesore 30, ---
7	= 8 dr.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
13865	man	Zmethis, son of Pachnoubis	Ζμηύθιος Παχνούβιος	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Tiberius	05	Mesore	30	19 August 23 CE	date in text;

Literature

Bilabel, Friedrich, BL 2,1: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band II, 1 (1929). (46)
Sijpesteijn, Piet & Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. Ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte II mit Nachtrag von P. J. Sijpesteijn (1970). (430)
Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. II. Texte (1899). (no. 4)

DatasetID	307113
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	00662
Trismegistos	76586
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilck;;4
Author	Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307113 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 315), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer.