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Ostr. Berlin P. 7870

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 7870
Publication Number O.Wilck. 1273
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 Dec 9 / Antoninus Pius
Dating between 143 and 143
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top and upper left and right corner

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 top and at the upper left and right corner
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, roman cursive, hand of the boethos Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmethis who works with praktor Annius Ammonianus and Soter.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for the price of public dates (time demosiou phoinikos)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for the price of public dates of the harvest of year 6, paid on account of a Melas, son of Esoueris, in year 7 of Antoninus Pius
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. the piece is broken at the right side in the upper lines: line breaks and supplies changed. l. 2: hyp. onoma]t(os)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1 ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣σε̣ω̣ς̣ μ̣η̣τ̣ρὸς -?-
x+2ὑπ(ὲρ) ὀνόματος 1ed. [ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣] ̣ Μέλανος Ἐσουήριος(?)
x+3ὑπ(ὲρ) τι(μῆς) δη(μοσίου) φοίνικος γενήματος ϛ (ἔτους) Ἀντωνίνου
x+4Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ἀπὸ (δραχμῶν) ϙζ
x+5ῥ̣υ̣π̣αρὰς δ̣ρ̣α̣χμὰς {(δραχμὰς)} μη (τετρώβολον). (ἔτους) ζ
x+6Ἀντω̣νίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
x+7μηνὸς Ἁδρειανοῦ 2l. Ἁδριανοῦ ιβ.

1 ed. [ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣] ̣
2 l. Ἁδριανοῦ
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1--- sis and the mother ---,
x+2on account of Melas, son of Esoueris(?),
x+3for the price of public dates of the harvest of year 6 of Antoninus
x+4Caesar the lord, of a total of 97 drachmas,
x+548 drachmas 4 ob. brutto. Year 7
x+6of Antoninus Caesar the lord,
x+7in the month Hadrianos 12.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4480 man Melas, son of Esoueris Μέλανος Ἐσουήριος pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Antoninus Pius 07 Hadrianos 12 143 December 9 CE date in text;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307124
last Change 29.07.2022
Berlpap 02301
Trismegistos 77657
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;1273
Author Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307124 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 7870), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer.