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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Berlin P. 7863

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 7863
Publication Number	O.Wilck. 1271
Current Location	magazine
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

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)	(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	between 121 and 122
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at right

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 right
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Palachemis
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax ( laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Palachemis scribe
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of the supervisor Sempronius Celer through the assistant Palachemis for poll tax of year 6 Hadrian, paid by Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmethis and Tisatis.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 2 and supplies of l.1-2 (Sh. Aly, APF 63, S. 98)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	Σενπρώνιος Κέλερ καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ διὰ Παλα- ¹ed. [αὐτῷ ἐπιτ(ηρηταὶ) ἱερᾶς πύλ(ης)]\| Σ̣ο̣ή(νης).
2	χήμιος. διέγραψε Παχνοῦβις Πετορζ̣μήθιος
3	μητρὸς Τισᾶτις ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας τοῦ ἕκτου (ἔτους) Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος
4	τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς δέκα ἑπτὰ (ἡμιωβέλιον) δεσ(μοφυλάκων) (ἡμιωβέλιον) (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολός).

¹ ed. [αὐτῷ ἐπιτ(ηρηταὶ) ἱερᾶς πύλ(ης)]| Σ̣ο̣ή(νης).

convex

1	Sempronius Celer and his associates through Pala-
2	chemis. Thus has paid Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmethis
3	and the mother Tisatis, for poll tax of the sixth year of Hadrian Caesar
4	the lord, seventeen drachmas 1/2 ob., for prison guards 1/2 ob., = 17 dr. 1 ob.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
21905	man	Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmethis and Tisatis	Παχνοῦβις Πετορζμήθου Θισατις	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	06			121 CE 122 CE	date in text;

Literature

Aly, Shereen A., Nine Greek Ostraca from the Egyptian Museum (2017). (98)
Bilabel, Friedrich, BL 2,1: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band II, 1 (1929). (99)
Duttenhöfer, Ruth, Korrekturen zu Ostraka aus Elephantine III: Anmerkungen zu O.Bankes und verwandten Texten. (246)
Nachtergael, Georges, La collection Marcel Hombert, T. 2: Nouveaux documents grecs d'Égypte et addenda au Tome 1 (2003). (45)

DatasetID	310253
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	77655
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilck;;1271
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310253 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 7863), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.