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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Berlin P. 6

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 6
Publication Number	O.Wilck. 149
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)	54 mm \| 47 mm \| 5 mm
Dating	between 129 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at left

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 left
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, cursive, hand of Iunius Valens
Comments on Text Layout	5 lines, left side broken off, other side uninscribed
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution for a statue of the emperor (merismos andriantos)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Iunius Valens
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of collector Kalasiris through the scribe Iunius Valens for the contribution for a statue of the emperor, paid by Petorzmethis the elder?, son of Poueris and Tisatis
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr: supply: merismos andriantos, cf. parallel OGL 651
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	Καλασῖρις πράκ(τωρ) ἀργ(υρικῶν) διὰ Οὐάλεντος βοηθοῦ. διέγραψεν
2	Πετορζμῆθις μείζω(ν) Πουήρεως μητρὸς Τισᾶτις
3	ὑπὲρ μερισμ(οῦ) ἀνδ(ριάντος) ¹ed. [ὑπ(ὲρ) - ca.11 -] τοῦ κυρίου Ἁδριανοῦ
4	τοῦ κυρίου (δραχμὰς) β. ²ed. [- ca.9 -] (ἔτους) ιγ Ἁδριανοῦ
5	Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Ἐπεὶφ κ̅ε̅.

¹ ed. [ὑπ(ὲρ) - ca.11 -]
² ed. [- ca.9 -]

convex

1	Kalasiris, collector of money taxes, through the assistant Valens. Thus has paid
2	Petorzmethis the elder, son of Poueris and the mother Tisatis,
3	for the contribution for a statue of the lord Hadrian
4	the lord 2 dr. Year 13 of Hadrian
5	Caesar the lord, Epeiph 25.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12475	man	Iunius Valens	Iunius Valens	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	13	Epeiph	25	129 July 19 CE	date in text;

Literature

Boswinkel, Ernst & Clarysse, Willy & Pestman, Pieter Willem & Rupprecht, Hans-Albert, BL 7: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band VII (1986). (300)
Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. II. Texte (1899). (no. 149)

DatasetID	461
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	00461
Trismegistos	76721
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilck;;149
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 461 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 6), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning; Ruth Duttenhöfer.