Ostr. Berlin P. 334

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 334
Publication Number	O.Wilck. 160
Current Location	magazine \| ostraca depository
Publication Status	published

Ancient Provenance Site	Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	(unknown) Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Travers, Consul Gustav Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	unknown
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 1879 and 1879
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Travers, Consul Gustav Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Erman, Adolf Certainty: high

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 134 and 135
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Left part broken off in undetermined extent.

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	All line beginnings of the Greek text are broken off. surface extremely damaged and dirty, hardly readable anymore
Script, Primary	Greek
Script, additional A	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Language, additional A	Roman Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, Greek:hand currently unknown
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with a broad upper margin.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5+1	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)		0
Column Height (in mm)		0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance		0

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Currently unknown) Pachnoumis, son of Petosorsmetis (boethos)
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	[///], son of Senpatanukis, is confirmed by Iulios Sabinos, Gelios Persis, Sansnos Ans- and further tax officers of the Holy Gate of Syene of having paid the poll tax (λαογραφία) for the 18th regnal year in an amount of 17drachmas and 1 obol. (according to BerlPap) Demotic subscription, very faded, due to the remains the name of the issuer Pachnoumis, son of Petosorsmetis.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Demotic subscription, very faded, due to the remains the name of the issuer Pachnoumis, son of Petosorsmetis.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. date P.Worp 43, p. 292, note 30; tax year 18, date year 19; but Gonis has a parallel (Bristol H 2394) with tax year 17 and date year 18
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

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1	Ἰούλιος Σαβεῖνος καὶ Γέλιος Πέρσης καὶ Σανσνὼς Α̣νσ-
2	̣ ̣ ̣ καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς ἐπιτηρηταὶ ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης. διέγραψεν
3	̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ μητρὸς Σενπατανοῦκις ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας
4	̣ ̣ (ἔτους) Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς δέκα ἑπτὰ ὀβολὸν
5	(γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολὸς). (ἔτους) ̣ ̣ Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου.

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6	¹Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje.n-ḏr.t Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-ns-mtr ///

¹ Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje.

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1	Iulius Sabinus and Gellius Perses and Sansnos, son of Ans---?
2	and their associate supervisors of the Sacred Gate of Syene. Thus has paid
3	NN, son of NN and the mother Senpatanoukis, for poll tax
4	of year ? of Hadrian the lord, seventeen drachmas 1 obol,
5	= 17 dr. 1 ob. Year ? of Hadrian the lord.
6	[Issued by Pachnoumis, son of Petosor]smetis. ⸢///⸣

Places (read out from edition)

Σοήνης (places.xml#8)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
21970	man	Gellius Perses epiteretes	Γέλλιος Πέρσης	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	18			134 August 29 CE 135 August 28 CE	date in text, year lost; suggested by Hoogendijk: tax year 18 and date year 19, but Gonis has a close parallel with tax year 17 and date year 18;

DatasetID	310034
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	50753
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilck;;160
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310034 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 334), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic).