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Ostr. Berlin, Private Collection Wilcken X

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin, Private Collection Wilcken X
Publication Number	O.Wilck. 8
Current Location	destroyed | wartime loss

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]
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Wilcken, Ulrich Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Erman, Adolf Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 30 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete

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, cursive, hand of praktor Pachompretis, son of Pelaias, countersigner Pelaias, son of Ariston
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Pachompretis, son of Pelaias, praktor Pelaias, son of Ariston, countersigner
Text Types	documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt for poll tax for year 10 of Tiberius, paid by Zmethis, son of Pachnoubis; with countersignature of Pelaias, son of Ariston.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 3-4 tou dekatou: date: year 10: 27. June 24 AD Foto fehlt unclear: translation of epekoloutheka, argyriou archaiou
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
13885	man	Pelaias, son of Ariston, countersigner	Πελαίας Ἀρίστωνος	Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Tiberius	10	Epeiph	03	24 June 27 CE	date in text; date corrected Duttenhöfer, Bilingual scribe, (WO 6, comm. l. 3);

 

Literature

• Duttenhöfer, Ruth, A Bilingual Scribe in Early Roman Tax Receipts from Elephantine (2021). ()
• Duttenhöfer, Ruth, Korrekturen zu Ostraka aus Elephantine / Syene. (180-181)
• 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). (3, no. 8.)

 

DatasetID	309528
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	76589
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilck;;8
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309528 (= Ostr. Berlin, Private Collection Wilcken X), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .