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Pap. Berlin P. P 11309

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. P 11309
Publication Number	BGU VI 1249
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	purchase Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Zucker, Friedrich (excavation director) Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Qena
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	purchase
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Zucker, Friedrich (excavation director) Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Erman, Adolf Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Dating	between 136 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at left and right side.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	perpendicular (recto)
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	broken at left and right
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, ptolemaic cursive, hand unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	13
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Settlement of a dispute
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Currently unknown)
Text Types	documentary \| contract \| horizontal format
Summary of Content	Settlement of a dispute, drawn up by a notary, between Isias and Esoroeris, son of Petosiris
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	woman as party in proceedings
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	ἔτους λδ Χοιὰχ ̣α̣ ἐν Συήνηι τῆς Θηβαίδος ἐπʼ Ἀριστοδήμου ἀγορανόμου
2	ὁμολογεῖ Ἰσιὰς ἡ καὶ Σεννῆσις Πατεπνεβτεῦτος Ἀφώντισσα μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ αὐτῆς
3	ἀνδ̣ρὸς Νεοπτολέμου τοῦ Νεοπτολέμου Κυρηναίου τῶν Πτολεμαίου καὶ τῶν υἱῶν
4	τακτομίσθου Ἐ̣σ̣αροήρει Πετοσίριος Ἀφωντεῖ ἀμίσθωι συλλελύσθαι αὐτῶι τε καὶ Ταγῶτι
5	τῆι γυναικὶ αὐτοῦ ὑπὲρ ἧς ἐνέβαλεν κατʼ αὐτῶν ἐντεύξεως ἐν τῶι λδ (ἔτει) τοῖς ἐν
6	Πτολεμαίδι τῆς Θηβαίδος δικασταῖς ὧν εἰσαγωγεὺς Φιλῖνος διʼ ἧς ἐνεκάλει αὐτοῖς
7	περὶ ὕβρεως καὶ πληγῶν ἃ ἐτιμήσατο χαλκοῦ ταλάντων δύ̣ο̣ καὶ ἀργυρίου δραχμῶν
8	ἑκατὸν καὶ μὴ ἐπελεύσεσθαι ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ὑπὲρ τῶν προγεγραμμένων μήδʼ ὑπὲρ τῶν
9	διὰ τῆς ἐντεύξεως δηλουμένων πά̣ν̣τ̣ων κατὰ μηθένα τρόπον, ἐὰν δʼ ἐπέλθῃ
10	ἢ ἄλλος τις ὑπὲρ̣ α̣ὐτῆς ἥ τʼ ἔφοδος αὐτοῖς ἄκυρος ἔστω̣ καὶ προσαποτεισάτω Ἰσιὰς
11	Ἐσαροήρει καὶ Ταγῶτι ἐπίτιμον χαλκοῦ τά̣λ̣α̣ν̣τα πέντε καὶ ἱερὰς τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν
12	ἀργυρίου ἐπισήμου δραχμὰς -?- χωρὶς τοῦ τὰ προγεγραμμένα κ̣ύρια
13	εἶναι. -?- κεχρημάτισται διʼ Ἀριστοδήμου ἀγορανόμου

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1	In the year 34, Choiak [1]1, in Syene of the Thebaid, before Aristodemos, Notary Public.
2	Thus acknowledges Isias, also called Sennesis, daughter of Patepnebteus, woman of Aphonte with guardian, her
3	husband Neoptolemos son of Neoptolemos, a Cyrenean, taktomisthos* of the (regiment) of Ptolemy and his sons,
4	to Esaroeris son of Petosiris, man of Aphonte without pay, that she has settled with him and Tagos,
5	his wife, about the petition she submitted against them in year 34 to the
6	judges in Ptolemais of the Thebaid, of whom Philinos was bailiff, through which she accused them
7	of assault and battery, which offenses she evaluated at bronze, two talents, and silver, a
8	hundred drachmas, and that she will not bring suit against them for the aforesaid nor for
9	all matters set forth in the petition in any way. And if she
10	or someone else on her behalf contests it, let the suit be invalid for them and additionally let Isias compensate
11	Esaroeris and Tagos by an assessment of bronze, five talents and
12	pure silver, [x] drachmas, holy to the kings, apart from the aforesaid being valid.
13	Transacted by Aristodemos, Notary Public.

Places (read out from edition)

Συήνηι (places.xml#8)

Ἀφώντισσα (places.xml#19)

Ἀφωντεῖ (places.xml#19)

λεμαίδι (places.xml#40)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
25940	man	Aristodemos, agoranomos (notary)	Ἀριστοδήμου	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios VIII Euergetes II	34	Choiak	11	-136 January 4 BCE	date in text, day incertain;

Literature

DatasetID	310307
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	4540
Papyri.info	ddbdp/bgu;6;1249
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310307 (= Pap. Berlin P. P 11309), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.