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Ostr. Berlin P. 4

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 4
Publication Number O.Wilck. 84
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: low
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery purchase
Certainty:
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 purchase
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1885 and 1885
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Erman, Adolf
Certainty:

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, red
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 89 mm | 81 mm | 6 mm
Dating between 112 and 113
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right

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) broken at right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, 1. hand unknown; 2. hand: subscript of praktor Ammonios.
Comments on Text Layout 10 lines, right side broken off, other side uninscribed
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 10
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for the price of public dates (time demosiou phoinikos)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of Ammonios and Petorzmethis, praktores (of Syene), for the price of public dates, paid by NN, son of Petorzmethis, with signature of praktor Ammonios.
Location of Composition Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr:supplies after WO 87 of the same hand, but size of lacuna at right incertain.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἀμμώνιος καὶ Πετορζμῆθις
2πράκτορες . διέγραψ(εν) ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
3Πετορζμήθεως ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ὑπ(ὲρ)
4τιμῆς δημοσίου φύνικος 1 l. φοίνικος γενήματος
5ιε (ἔτους) Τραειανοῦ 2 l. Τραιανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
6δραχμὰς ἑπτὰ τετρώβολον (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ζ (τετρώβολον).
7(ἔτους) ιϛ Τραιανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου.
8 Ἀμμώνιος πράκτωρ σεση-
9μίωμαι 3 l. [σεση]|μείωμαι δραχμὰς ἑπτὰ τετρώβολον (γίνονται)
10(δραχμαὶ) ζ (τετρώβολον) ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣

1 l. φοίνικος
2 l. Τραιανοῦ
3 l. [σεση]|μείωμαι
convex
1Ammonios and Petorzmethis,
2collectors. Thus has paid ---,
3son of Petorzmethis and ---, for
4the price of public dates of the harvest
5of year 15 of Traianus Caesar
6seven drachas four obols, = 7 dr. 4 ob.
7Year 16 of Trajan the lord ---?
8Ammonios, collector, I have
9signed (for) seven drachmae four oboloi, =
107 dr. 4 ob. ---?
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
26775 man ---, son of Petorzmethis (WO 84) --- Πετορζμήθεως --- pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 16 112 August 29 CE 113 August 28 CE date in text;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 459
last Change 29.07.2022
Berlpap 00459
Trismegistos 76662
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;84
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 459 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 4), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning; Ruth Duttenhöfer.