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Ostr. Berlin P. 12091

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12091
Publication Number	SB VI 9604, 24
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:
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director) Certainty:
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, red
Size (Height | Width | Thickness)	71 mm | 93 mm | 5 mm
Dating	between 173 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, cursive, hand of Marcus Annius Nemonianus.
Comments on Text Layout	10 lines, other side uninscribed
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	10
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for tax on behen-nuts (μυροβάλανοι)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Marcus Annius Nemonianus
Text Types	documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Tithoetion and collegues, supervisors (epiteretai) of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through Marcus Annius Nemonianus, collector (apaitetes), for the Third of Behen-nuts (myrobalanon) of the nome of the harvest of year 12 of Marc Aurel, paid in kind (matia; of 2 matia, two thirds) by the priest Pachompaonnophris on account of "Ammon's land" in year 13 of Marc Aurel.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Syncretism
Comment on Religion	priest of Ammon's land

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
26620	not applicable	Ammon, god	Ἄμμων	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius	13	Pharmuthi	05	173 March 31 CE	date in text;

 

Literature

• Bonsangue, Maria Luisa, Les relations commerciales entre Pouzzoles et l'Égypte au IIe siècle ap. J.-C. (2001). (199-212)
• Kiessling, Emil & Preisigke, Friedrich & Bilabel, Friedrich & Rupprecht, Hans-Albert, Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten VI (1963). (9604, 24)
• Müller, Wolfgang, Griechische Ostraka aus Elephantine/Syene II (1958). (11-12, no. 24.)
• Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Worp, Klaas A. & Hoogendijk, Francisca A.J., BL 12: Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band XII (2009). (199)

 

DatasetID	3431
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	03431
Trismegistos	19131
Papyri.info	ddbdp/sb;6;9604_24
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 3431 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12091), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer.