Ostr. Berlin P. 12065

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12065
Publication Number	SB VI 9545, 33
Current Location	exhibition \| Neues Museum, Berlin
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

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 1906

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, hand unknown
Comments on Text Layout	6 lines, other side uninscribed
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Permission granted to engage in prostitution
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Currently unknown) Brasidios Valens
Text Types	documentary \| receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt for the permission to engage in prostitution, given out by the tax farmers (telonai) of the tax for prostitution to Thinmareine; with signature of Brasidius Valens.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	woman as taxpayer, prostitute, slave?
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	Ἀμμώνιος καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῶι τελῶναι
2	ἑταιρικοῦ Θινμαρείνῃ χαίρειν .
3	συνεχωρήσαμέν σοι ἑταιρεῖν
4	τῇ κϛ τοῦ Θὼθ τοῦ ϛ (ἔτους) Ἀντωνείνου
5	Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου. Θὼθ κϛ.
6	Β̣ρα̣σ̣ί̣διος Οὐάλης σεσημίωμαι ¹ l. σεσημείωμαι .

¹ l. σεσημείωμαι

convex

1	Ammonios and his associate collectors
2	for the tax on prostitutes to Thinmareine greetings.
3	We have given permission for you to engage in prostitution
4	on the 16th of Thoth of the 6th year of Antoninus
5	Caesar the lord, Thoth 26.
6	(2. Hand) Brasidius Valens, I have signed.

Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
18465	man	Ammonios telones pentekostes	Ἀμμώνιος	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius	06	Thoth	26	142 September 23 CE	date in text;

Burnet, Régis, L'Égypte ancienne à travers les papyrus. Vie quotidienne (2003). (no. 184.)
Flemming, Rebecca, Quae Corpore Quaestum Facit: The Sexual Economy of Female Prostitution in the Roman Empire (1999). (46, rem. 38.)
Kiessling, Emil & Preisigke, Friedrich & Bilabel, Friedrich & Rupprecht, Hans-Albert, Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten VI (1963). (9545, 33.)
Müller, Wolfgang, Griechische Ostraka (1958). (212, no. 33.)
Nelson, C. A., Receipt for Tax on Prostitutes (1995). (29-30)

DatasetID	3427
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	03427
Trismegistos	19095
Papyri.info	ddbdp/sb;6;9545_33
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 3427 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12065), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning; Ruth Duttenhöfer.