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Ostr. Berlin P. 12596

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12596
Publication Number SB IV 7399
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:
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
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 partage
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1906 and 1906

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, grey brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 50 mm | 72 mm | 10 mm
Dating between 144 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation surface abraded and damaged. hardly readable.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) surface damaged and abraded
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

 

Text Content

Modern Title Permission granted to engage in prostitution
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Bassion, taxfarmer of the tax on prostitution (τέλος ἑταιρικόν), gives permission to Aphrodite to engage in prostitution, on Hatyr 14 of year 8 of Antoninus, only.
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 woman as taxpayer, slave, prostitute
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Βασσίων τελώνης ἑταιρεικοῦ 1 l. ἑταιρικοῦ
2Ἀφροδίτῃ· ἐπιτρε 2 l. ἐπιτρέπω σοι ἑταιρεῖν
3πρὸς μόνην τὴν ἐνεστῶσαν ἡ-
4μέραν, ἥτις ἐστὶν ιδ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος
5η̣ (ἔτους) Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου,
6Ἁθὺρ ιδ.

1 l. ἑταιρικοῦ
2 l. ἐπιτρέπω
convex
1Bassion, collector of the tax on prostitutes,
2to Aphrodite (greetings). I permit you to engage in prostitution
3for today only, which is the 14th of the current
48th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord,
5Hathyr 14. (Nelson)
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
22670 woman Aphrodite (prostitute?) Ἀφροδίτῃ Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Antoninus Pius 08 Hathyr 14 144 November 10 CE date in text;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 3584
last Change 29.07.2022
Berlpap 03584
Trismegistos 18046
Papyri.info ddbdp/sb;4;7399
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 3584 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12596), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer.