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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Berlin P. 25470

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 25470
Publication Number	SB XXII 15806
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]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	purchase
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Wilcken, Ulrich Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 78 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	ostrakon broken in two parts

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, hand of Verris Philoumenos
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Verris Philoumenos
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	REceipt for trade tax of year 11 of Vespasian, paid by Psenchnoubis and his son.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Comments on Text	corr. l. 1 Psonchnoubis
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Child
Comment on Gender	taxpayer and son
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	ἐχο ¹ l. ἔχω ἐπὶ λόγου παρὰ Ψον̣χνούβιος²ed. Ψουχνούιος
2	καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ ὑπὲρ χιροναξιου ³ l. χειρωναξ́ιου
3	τοῦ ια (ἔτους) Οὐεσπασιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
4	(δραχμὰς) ιβ Χοιὰκ ι̅θ̅. Φιλούμενος
5	ἔγραψα.

¹ l. ἔχω
² ed. Ψουχνούιος
³ l. χειρωναξ́ιου

convex

1	I have received on account from Penchnoubis
2	and his son for trade tax
3	of the 11th year of Vespasian the lord
4	12 dr., Choiak 19. Philoumenos,
5	I have written.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
30010	man	Psenchnoubis, son of Petorzmethis? (Vespasian/Nero)	Ψον̣χνούβιος	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Vespasian	11	Choiak	19	78 December 15 CE	date in text;

Literature

Burnet, Régis, L'Égypte ancienne à travers les papyrus. Vie quotidienne (2003). (no. 76)
Nelson, C. A., Receipts for Trade-Tax in Elephantine / Syene. (no. 1)
Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Hengstl, Joachim, Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XXII (2001). (no. 15806)

DatasetID	307133
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	05265
Trismegistos	79208
Papyri.info	ddbdp/sb;22;15806
Author	Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307133 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 25470), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer.