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Ostr. Berlin P. 12172

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12172
Publication Number ined. (to be published in BGU)
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
Publication Status unpublished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) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 190 and 200
Criteria for Dating date according to tax collector's time of office
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation ink faded

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) ink faded
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Bienchis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for rent (enoikion oikopedon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Serenos the younger, son of Pachnoubis, and of Mettis Tyrannos, collectors of taxes in money and kind of Elephantine, through the assistant Bienchis, for rent (enoikiou oikopeid(?))
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text no transcript to by published in BGU
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
27075 man Bienchis, scribe (late) Βιήγχ(εως) pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek
26940 man Mettis Tyrannos Μετ(τ)ις Τύραννος Latin
27085 man Serenos the younger, son of Pachnoubis, praktor Σερῆνο̣ς̣ νεώτ(ερος) Παχνο̣ύ(βιος) pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
190 CE 200 CE late 2nd cent. Commodus-Sept.Severus;

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 317250
last Change 29.07.2022
Berlpap 10033
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer; BerlPap
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 317250 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12172 ), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; BerlPap.