Ostr. Berlin P. 25458

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (ex)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 25458
Publication Number	O.Wilck. 43
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	earlier Collection Ebers
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)	(unknown) Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	donation
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Wilcken, Ulrich Certainty: medium
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Erman, Adolf Certainty: medium

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 unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for customs duties
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Pompeius Valens
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Pompeius Valens, tax farmer of the 2% tax at the harbour of Syene, for custom duties on the export of 1500 empty jars, paid by Sarapion, son of Papremithes and the mother Takoues?.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 2 name: Takoues?
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation?
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	Πομπήιος Οὐάλης καὶ μέτοχοι πεντηκοστῶναι ¹probably rather <τελῶναι> πεντηκοσ(τῆς): cf. P.Customs, 194, n. 7. λιμένος
2	Σοήνης Σαραπίων ² l. Σαραπίωνι Παπρεμείθου Τακουης̣ ³ed. Ταιουπ ̣[ ̣ ̣χ(αίρειν). ἀπέχο-
3	μεν παρά σου τὸ γινόμενον τέλος ὧν ἐξήγαγες
4	κούφον ⁴ l. κούφων λαγύνων χιλίων πεντακοσίων (γίνονται) ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ (ἔτους)
5	ιε Δομιτιανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣

¹ probably rather <τελῶναι> πεντηκοσ(τῆς): cf. P.Customs, 194, n. 7.
² l. Σαραπίωνι
³ ed. Ταιουπ ̣[ ̣ ̣
⁴ l. κούφων

convex

1	Pompeius Valens and his associate tax farmers of the 2% tax of the harbour
2	of Syene, to Sarapion, son of Papremithes and? Takoue?, greetings. We have re-
3	ceived from you the proper tax for the jars which you have exported,
4	empty, thousand five hundred, = 1500 jars.
5	Year 15 of Domitian Caesar the lord, ---

Places (read out from edition)

Σοήνης (places.xml#8)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
15275	man	Pompeius Valens	Πομπήιος Οὐάλης	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Domitian	15			95 CE 96 CE	date in text;

DatasetID	310260
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	76622
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilck;;43
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310260 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 25458), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.