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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Berlin P. 12669

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12669
Publication Number	SB VI 9545, 26
Current Location	magazine
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 1908

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, red brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	63 mm \| 83 mm \| 6 mm
Dating	between 124 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 Sarapion, scribe of Sanmous
Comments on Text Layout	6 lines, other side uninscribed
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sarapion, scribe of Sanmus praktor
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of praktor Pachompatenephotes for contribution for river police boats of year 8 of Hadrian, paid by Panes, son of Zmenpos and Senzmethis; written by the scribe Sarapion.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	Παχομπατενεφώτης πράκτωρ διὰ Σαραπίων
2	γραμματεὺς. διέγραψεν Πάνης Ζμετπῶτος
3	μητρὸς Σενζμήθιος ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ ποταμοφυλακίδος
4	η (ἔτους) ῥυπ(αροὺς) ὀβολ(οὺς) δέκα . (ἔτους) η
5	Ἁδ̣ρ̣ιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου Παῦ-
6	νι κθ.

convex

1	Pachompatenephotes, collector, through Sarapion,
2	scribe. Thus has paid Panes, son of Zmenpos
3	and the mother Senzmethis, for the contributions of river police boats
4	of year 8, ten obols brutto. Year 8
5	of Hadrian the lord, Pay-
6	ni 29.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4733	man	Pachompetenephotes praktor	Παχομπατενεφώτης Παχομπετενεφώτης	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	08	Payni	29	124 June 23 CE	date in text;

Literature

Kiessling, Emil & Preisigke, Friedrich & Bilabel, Friedrich & Rupprecht, Hans-Albert, Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten VI (1963). (9545, 26.)
Müller, Wolfgang, Griechische Ostraka (1958). (207, no. 26.)

DatasetID	3593
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	03593
Trismegistos	19088
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 3593 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12669), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer.