Ostr. Berlin P. 8621

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 8621
Publication Number	O.Berlin 45

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Abd el Megid (Luxor) Certainty:

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 161 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at lower left 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 lower left corner
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Pachnoubis boethos
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Pachnoumis, son of Petosorsmetis (boethos)
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Ulpius Cerealis, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through the assistant Pachnoubis, for poll tax of year 24 of Antoninus= year 1 of Marc Aurel and Verus, paid by Pesouris, son of Peteptensetis and the mother Thinharpaesis.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 3, name Peteptensetis! cf. O.Ashm. 21? corr. 7 and 8 schon bei Reiter in FS Vleeming
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	Οὔλπιος Κερεᾶλις μισθωτὴς ἱερᾶς πύλης
2	Σοήνης διὰ Παχνουβις ¹ l. Παχνούβιος βοηθοῦ ²Reiter; ed. βοηθο(ῦ). διέγραψεν
3	Πεσοῦρις Πετεπτενσ̣ήτ̣εως ³Duttenhöfer; ed. Πετεπτενε̣ψίλ̣εωςμητρὸς Θιν-
4	αρπαησις ⁴ l. Θιν\|αρπαήσιος ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας κδ (ἔτους) ἐπὶ λόγου δραχμὰς
5	ὀκτώ, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η. (ἔτους) κδ Ἀντωνίνου
6	Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Παχὼν η̅.
7	̣ ̣(day) ὁ αὐτὸς̣ διέγραψεν ⁵Reiter; ed. ] ̣δρ ̣ ̣ ε ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας α (ἔτους) δραχμὰς ⁶Reiter; ed. δρ(αχμὰς) τέσ-
8	ἐννέα ὀβολ(όν), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) θ (ὀβολός). ⁷Reiter; ed. [σαρας, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ. ̣ ̣ ̣] ̣ ̣( )

¹ l. Παχνούβιος
² Reiter; ed. βοηθο(ῦ)
³ Duttenhöfer; ed. Πετεπτενε̣ψίλ̣εως
⁴ l. Θιν|αρπαήσιος
⁵ Reiter; ed. ] ̣δρ ̣ ̣ ε
⁶ Reiter; ed. δρ(αχμὰς) τέσ-
⁷ Reiter; ed. [σαρας, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ. ̣ ̣ ̣] ̣ ̣( )

convex

1	Ulpius Cerealis, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate
2	of Syene through Pachnoubis, assistant. Thus has paid
3	Pesouris, son of Peteptensetis and the mother Thin-
4	harpaesis, for poll tax of year 24, on account, drachmas
5	eight, = 8 dr. Year 24 of Antoninus
6	Caesar the lord, Pachon 8.
7	On the ? (of Pachon) the same has paid for poll tax of year 1 drachmas
8	nine, (one) obol, = 9 dr. 1 ob.

Places (read out from edition)

Σοήνης (places.xml#8)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
13710	man	Pachnoumis, son of Petosorsmetis (boethos)	Παχνουβις; Pa-Hnm sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı-Wsır-ns-mtr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius	24	Pachons	08	161 May 3 CE	date in text;

Literature

DatasetID	310256
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	24438
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.berl;;45
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310256 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 8621), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.