Ostr. Berlin P. 5

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 5
Publication Number	O.Wilck. 258
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

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:

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 left
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Petorzmethis, scribe
Comments on Text Layout	6 lines, left side broken off, other side uninscribed
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	tax receipt for contribution (merismos)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petorzmethis, scribe of Longinus Serenos
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of the praktores Longinos Serenos and Petronios Bassianos, through their assistant (βοηθός) Petorzmethis, for the contribution of year 5 of Marc Aurel and Verus, paid by Harpaesis, son of Petesuchos and Senpetorzmetis.
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

Transcription

Translation

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1	Λονγεῖνος Σερῆνος καὶ Πετρῶνις
2	Βασσιανὸς πράκ(τορες) ἀργυρικῶν Ἐλεφαντίνης διὰ Πετορ-
3	ζμήθ(ου) βοηθ(οῦ). διέγρ(αψεν) Ἁρπαῆσις Πετεσούχου
4	μητ(ρὸς) Σενπετορζμήτιος ὑπὲρ μερισμῶν ε (ἔτους) ἐπὶ λόγου (δραχμὰς) δ.
5	(ἔτους) ε Ἀντωνίνου καὶ Οὐήρου Καισάρων τῶν
6	κυρίων Παχὼν κζ.

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1	Longinus Serenus and Petronius
2	Bassianus, collectors of money taxes at Elephantine, through Petor-
3	zmethis, assistant. Thus has paid Harpaesis, son of Petesouchos
4	and the mother Senpetorzmethis, for the contributions of year 5, on account, 4 dr.
5	Year 5 of Antoninus and Verus Caesares the
6	lords, Pachon 27.

Places (read out from edition)

Ἐλεφαντίνης (places.xml#3)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
26870	man	Harpaesis, son of Petesouchos and Senpetorzmethis	Ἁρπαῆσις Πετεσούχου Σενπετορζμήτιος	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius + Verus	05	Pachons	27	165 May 22 CE	date in text;

Bilabel, Friedrich, BL 2,1: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band II, 1 (1929). (52)
Shelton, John C., Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca, and wooden tablets in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. (98, comm. 1)
Viereck, Paul, Die Ostraka des Berliner Museums (1901). (459)
Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. II. Texte (1899). (no. 258)
Worp, K. A., The Bankes ostraka from a box at Kingston Lacy: The Greek Texts (2016). (23,1, rem.)

DatasetID	460
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	00460
Trismegistos	76825
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilck;;258
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 460 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 5), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning; Ruth Duttenhöfer.