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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Berlin P. 14

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 14
Publication Number	O.Wilck. 20
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)	64 mm \| 77 mm \| 4 mm
Dating	between 55 and 68
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, cursive, same hand as WO 11, and more
Comments on Text Layout	6 lines, right side broken off, other side uninscribed
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax ( laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Hermonas, son of Pelaias, praktor
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt for poll tax of an unknown year of Nero (perhaps year 1?), paid by P---, son of Poueris, with signature of a praktor called Hermonas
Location of Composition	Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	date: because of the long titulature an early date (year 1) of Nero is probable!
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	διαγεγράφηκεν Π ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
2	Πουήρεος ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας πρώτου? (ἔτους)
3	Νέρωνος Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος
4	Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος
5	Ἐφεὶφ κδ ἀργ(υρίου) δραχ(μὰς) δέκα ἓξ (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιϛ.
6	διὰ Ἑρμωνᾶτος (δραχμὰς) δέκα ἓξ (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιϛ.

convex

1	Thus has paid P---,
2	son of Poueris, for poll tax of year ?
3	of Nero Claudius Caesar
4	Augustus Germanicus Imperator,
5	Epeiph 24, silver drachmas sixteen, = 16 dr.
6	Through Hermonas, dr. sixteen, = 16 dr.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
26780	man	---, son of Poueris (WO 20 Vesp.)	Π… Πουήρεος	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Nero	01	Epeiph	24	55 July 18 CE	date in text, year lost, perhaps year 1, July 18;

Literature

Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. II. Texte (1899). (no. 20.)

DatasetID	464
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	00464
Trismegistos	76601
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilck;;20
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 464 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 14), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning; Ruth Duttenhöfer.