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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 13577 |
Current Location | magazine |
Comments on Inventory | joining: Pap. Berlin P. 13577a-b + 23588a-f registered as existing during revision (1958) |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication assigned |
Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
Ancient Provenance Details | "Nordschugl" |
Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Discovery | archaeological excavation Certainty: high |
Date of Discovery Term. Ante / Post Quem Non |
between 6 1 1907 and 6 1 1907 |
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 1907 and 1907 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
Object Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 333 mm | 447 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Consists of two joining fragments. Several holes. The lateral parts are broken off. The lower edge is heavily damaged. Measurements of the single fragments (h × w): a: 33,7 × 45 cm; b: 33,3 × 44,7 cm. |
Mounting | framed between glass |
Comments on Object | Palimpest. Unreadable traces of an anterior text in Greek, dated 214/214 BCE.. |
Localization of Text on Object | recto/verso | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (recto) and perpendicular (verso) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Partly faded. Left and right parts are broken off in undetermined extent. Several holes with text losses. Lower part heavily damaged. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige, teilweise wenig deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift verschiedener Hände." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Differing line pitches. Columns partly not right-aligned. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | a and b ca. 7 col with ca. 34 | a ca. 5 col with about 34 each |
Quantity of Columns | ca. 14 | ca. 5 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 435 | |
Column Height (in mm) | 320 | |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | a: +435+y x 315. b: x+435+y x 320 | a: x+420+y x 300. b: (traces) |
Modern Title | Receipt concerning field allotments and payments of money of the Chnoum temple |
Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Receipt in form of a list concerning allotments of fields from the Chnoum temple domain to land leasers, some of them Greeks; lists of payments of money. The presereved part of an anterior Greke text dates to 214/213 BCE. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Comments on Text | |
Multilingualism | Monolingual |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic Dynasty (late) | -180 BCE -30 BCE | Dating by palimpsest: older text in Greek dated BCE 214/213.; |
DatasetID | 100010 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Berlpap | 12308 |
Trismegistos | 45688 |
Author | Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek) |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100010 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13577), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek). |