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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Berlin P. 12043

TEI-XML-File: https://p612399.webspaceconfig.de/xml/elephantine_erc_db_003419.tei.xml

Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12043
Publication Number	SB VI 9545, 20
Current Location	magazine \| papyrus depository
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

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
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	partage
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1906 and 1906

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, medium brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	68 mm \| 84 mm \| 5 mm
Dating	between 143 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, roman cursive, hand of assistant Palachmis 2
Comments on Text Layout	7 lines, other side uninscribed
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax ( laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Palachemis 2 boethos
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of the tax farmers Herakleides and Isidoros through the assistant Palachemis, for poll tax of year 6 of Antoninus, paid by Petorzmethis the younger, son of Bienchis and Herieous.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok (including corr. of papyri.info)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	woman in filiation
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	Ἡρακλείδης καὶ Ἰσίδωρος
2	μισθωταὶ πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Παλαχήμιος
3	βοηθοῦ. διέγραψεν Πετορζμῆτις ὁ νεώτερος
4	Βιήνγχεως μητρὸς Ἑριηοῦτος λαογραφίας
5	ϛ (ἔτους) Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος
6	τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς δέκα
7	ἑπτὰ ὀβολόν , (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολὸς). Ἐπεὶφ κ.

convex

1	Herakleides and Isidoros,
2	tax farmers of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through Palachemis,
3	assistant. Thus has paid Petorzmethis the younger,
4	son of Bienchis and the mother Herieous, for poll tax
5	of year 6 of Antoninus Caesar
6	the lord, seventeen drachmas
7	one obol, = 17 dr. 1 ob. Epeiph 20.

Places (read out from edition)

Σοήνης (places.xml#8)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12980	man	Herakleides misthotes	Ἡρακλείδης misthotes	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius	06	Epeiph	20	143 July 14 CE	date in text;

Literature

Hoogendijk, Francisca A.J., Twelve Greek Ostraca from Elephantine (2008). (287)
Kiessling, Emil & Preisigke, Friedrich & Bilabel, Friedrich & Rupprecht, Hans-Albert, Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten VI (1963). (9545, 20)
Müller, Wolfgang, Griechische Ostraka (1958). (203, no. 20.)

DatasetID	3419
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	03419
Trismegistos	19082
Papyri.info	ddbdp/sb;6;9545_20
Author	BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 3419 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12043), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer.