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Ostr. Berlin P. 12580

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12580
Publication Number ined.
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Zucker, Friedrich (excavation director)
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, red brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 130 mm | 113 mm | 10 mm
Dating between 120 and 199
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete

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) no transcript to by published in BGU
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, roman cursive, hand of Sarapion
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of Valerion and his associate tax farmers (misthotai) through the scribe Sarapion for trade tax, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Peteuris.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text no transcript to by published in BGU
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12910 man Petorzmethis, son of Peteuris (and the mother Tisatis) Πετορζμῆθις Πετεύρεως, Berl. Πετεώρεως μη(τρὸς) Τισᾶτις Greek, Ancient
4246 man Sarapion scribe 1 Σαραπίων Greek, Ancient
15455 man Valerion misthotes Οὐαλερίων Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian Pachons 13 118 CE 121 CE date according to tax collector's time of office and his scribe's term: year 2-5 of Hadrian;

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316892
last Change 29.07.2022
Berlpap 10186
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 316892 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12580), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.