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Ostr. Berlin P. 7865

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 7865
Publication Number	O.Wilck. 1267
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	donation
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1891 and
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Stübel, Alphons Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Erman, Adolf Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating of Object	AD 71 - 72 / Vespasianus, Reg,.Jahr 03
Dating	between 71 and 72
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at left

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, cursive, hand of Melanthis
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for an unidentified tax
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Melanthis (son of Hermodotos) praktor
Text Types	documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Melanthis for unknown tax of the fourth year of Vespasian, with signature of Melanthis, paid by NN, son of Sarapion
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok (incl. Reiters corr.)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
26690	man	---, son of Sarapion	̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ Σαραπίωνος	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Vespasian	04		28	71 CE 72 CE	date in text, vgl. Reiter.;

 

Literature

• Reiter, Fabian, Vorschläge zu Lesung und Deutung einiger Steuerquittungen aus Elephantine (2018). (60, n. 2.)
• Reiter, Fabian, Vorschläge zu Lesung und Deutung einiger Steuerquittungen aus Elephantine (2018). (62)
• Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. II. Texte (1899). (no. 1267)

 

DatasetID	307123
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	02296
Trismegistos	77651
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilck;;1267
Author	Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307123 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 7865), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer.