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Tablet Berlin P. 11456

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Tablet Berlin P. 11456
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory registered as existing during revision (1966)
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only

Origin / Provenance

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

Object Type tablet
Color wood, dark
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 321 mm | 76 mm | 11 mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Rims damaged, surface partly abraded.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object two-sided
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Partly faded or darkened.
Script, Primary Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Medium, on the inner side wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface, with vey small margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 25 31
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 70 70
Column Height (in mm) 301 301
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 70 x 301 70 x 301

 

Text Content

Modern Title daily account of wheat deliveries for the temple and other accounts
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Board with different accounts from the administrative archive of the Chnoum temple, presumbaly a notepad, which was thrown away after transferring all data to the final archive papyrus rolls. One sides books delivieries of flour for the temple, counted daily for each first month of the three seasons. The other side contains accounts of deliveries or income of wheat for differnt persons, including one female, presumably temple personnel.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Identifier of woman: none - Activity of woman: beneficiary of payment (wheat, connection to temple)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
side 1
1pꜣ ⸢ı͗p⸣ nyt r ḏı͗.t
2n ⸢ḥ.t-nṯr⸣
3nyt n Ptḥ(?)
4⸢..?..⸣ [_] 4
5ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw-1 [_] 1
6sw-2 [_] 3½ ḥqꜣ.t sw-3 1 ḥqꜣ.t sw-4 1½ ḥqꜣ.t
7nyt ı͗w=f wn ⸢..?..⸣
8ẖ(?) 2½ ḥqꜣ.t sw-4 ½⅓ ḥqꜣ.t
9sw-5 2 ḥqꜣ.t ⸢sw-6 2 ḥqꜣ.t⸣ sw-⸢7⸣ 2 ḥqꜣ.t
10sw-8 1⅓⅓ ḥqꜣ.t..?.
11sw-9 1⅓⅓ ḫqꜣ.t [_] sw-10 2½¼ ḫqꜣ.t
12sw-11 2 ḥqꜣ.t ⸢sw-⸣12 2⅓ heqat 1/12
13sw-13 2⅓⅓ ḥqꜣ.t sw-14 2⅓ ḥqꜣ.t sw-15 2 ḥqꜣ.t
14sw-16 1½⅓ ḥqꜣ.t dnı͗.t ½¼2(?) ḥqꜣ.t
15sw-17 2⅓ ḥqꜣ.t sw-18 1½⅓ ḥqꜣ.t
16sw-19 2 ḥqꜣ.t [_] sw-20 2 ḥqꜣ.t
17⸢..?..⸣ 3½¼ ḥqꜣ.t
18nyt ı͗t mḥ-1 3 ḥqꜣ.t mḥ-2 1½ ḥqꜣ.t mḥ-3 2⅓ ḥqꜣ.t
19ı͗bd 1 pr.t sw-2 2 ḥqꜣ.t sw-6 2 ḥqꜣ.t sw-7 1⅓⅓ ḥqꜣ.t
20sw-8 2⅓⅓ ḥqꜣ.t sw-9 1⅓⅓ ḥqꜣ.t
21sw-10 1½⅓ ḥqꜣ.t sw-11 1½⅓ ḥqꜣ.t
22sw-12 1½⅓ ḥqꜣ.t sw-1<3 > 1½⅓ ḥqꜣ.t sw-14 1½⅓ ḥqꜣ.t
23sw-15 1⅓⅓ ḥqꜣ.t sw-16 1½ ḥqꜣ.t
24sw-18 2⅓⅓ ḥqꜣ.t sw-19 2⅓ ḥqꜣ.t
25sw-20 1⅓⅓ ḥqꜣ.t
26sw-29 ½⅓ ḥqꜣ.t
27ı͗bd 1 šmw ..?..
28sw-2 2⅓ ḥqꜣ.t sw-6 ⅓⅓ ḥqꜣ.t sw-8 ⅓ ḥqꜣ.t
29sw-9 ⅓ ḥqꜣ.t sw-10 ⅓ ḥqꜣ.t sw-11 ⅓ ḥqꜣ.t sw-12 ⅓ ḥqꜣ.t
30sw-16 ⅓ ḥqꜣ.t sw-17 ⅓ ḥqꜣ.t
31nyt ⸢..?..⸣ ⅓ ḥqꜣ.t
32⸢..?..⸣ ⅓ ḥqꜣ.t
side 2
1pꜣ ı͗p Tꜣ-šr.t-wrše(?)
2nꜣ hy.w r-ḏı͗=w n=w r hrw
3ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 20 Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm ⸢sw ½⸣
4Pa-H̱nm sw 5
5⸢..?..⸣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-⸢Wsı͗r⸣ [_] sw ⸢2½⸣
6⸢Tꜣ-šr.t-Pa-H̱nm⸣ [_] sw 5
7r sw 7½ 1Counting is erroneous, it should be 8 instead of 7½. ⸢sw⸣ 5
8Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp Pa-H̱nm sw 5
9r sw 12½ sw 5 [_] [[sw 5]]
10ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 2 [_] sw 2½ sw ⸢5⸣
11sw 9 [_] sw 5
12sw 10 [_] sw 3½ ꜥn
13ꜥ.wy šp sr sw ⸢10(?)⸣
14sw 17 [_] sw 5
15sw 18 [_] sw ⸢2½⸣
16⸢ꜥ.wy šp⸣ sr sw ½
17sw 20+x [_] (sw) 5
18⸢///⸣ 10 ꜥn ḥḏ qd(?) ⸢..?..⸣
19⸢..?..⸣
20⸢..?..⸣ ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 4(?) sw 2½
21⸢sw 25⸣ sw 10
22⸢sw 26⸣ [_] sw ½ ꜥn
23⸢sw 27⸣ sw 7½
24⸢sw 28⸣ 6½ ..?..
25⸢sw 29⸣ [_] sw 2 sw ⸢///⸣

1 Counting is erroneous, it should be 8 instead of 7½.
side 1
1The counting of flour, to be delivered
2into the temple.
3Flour (Mehl) for Ptah(?)
4⸢..?..⸣ [_] 4
5Thot. 1st day: [_] 1.
62nd day: [_]3½ heqat. 3rd day: 1 heqat. 4th day: ½ heqat.
7Flour, which is ⸢..?..⸣.
8Copy(?) 2½ heqat. 4th day: ½⅓ heqat.
95th day: 2 heqat. 6th day: 2 heqat. 7th day: 2 heqat.
108th day: 1⅓3 heqat..?.
119th day: 1⅓⅓ heqat. [_]10th day: 2½¼ heqat.
1211th day: 2 heqat. 12th day: 2#1 heqat (and) 1/12.
1313th day: 2⅓⅓ heqat. 14th day: 2⅓ heqat. 15th day: 2 heqat.
1416th day: 1½⅓ heqat. Share ½¼2(?) heqat.
1517th day: 2⅓ heqat. 18th day: 1½⅓ heqat.
1619th day: 2 heqat. [_]20th day: 2 heqat.
17⸢..?..⸣ 3½¼ heqat.
18Flour, grain: The 1st: 3 heqat. The 2nd: 2½ heqat. The 3rd: 2⅓ heqat.
19Tybi: 2nd day: 2 heqat. 6th day: 2 heqat. 7th day: 1⅓⅓ heqat.
208th day: 2⅓⅓ heqat. 9th day: 1⅓⅓ heqat.
2110th day: 1½⅓ heqat. 11th day: 1½⅓ heqat.
2212th day: 1½⅓ heqat. 1<3 >th day: 1½⅓ heqat. 14th day: 1½⅓ heqat.
2315th day: 1⅓⅓ heqat. 16th da<: 1½ heqat.
2418th day: 2⅓⅓ heqat. 19th day: 2⅓ heqat.
2520th day: 1⅓⅓ heqat.
2629th day: ½⅓ heqat.
27Pachons ..?..
282nd day: 2⅓ heqat. 6th day: ⅓⅓ heqat. 8th day: ⅓ heqat.
299th day: ⅓ ḥqꜣ.t. 10th day: ⅓ ḥqꜣ.t. 11th day: ⅓ ḥqꜣ.t. 12th day: ⅓ ḥqꜣ.t.
3016th day: ⅓ ḥqꜣ.t. 17th day: ⅓ ḥqꜣ.t.
31Flour ⸢..?..⸣ ⅓ heqat
32⸢..?..⸣ ⅓ heqat.
side 2
1The account of Senorsis(?).
2The expenses which were brought to them for the day.
320th of Pachons: Stamnaichnoumis: ½ (artabas) wheat.
4Pachnoumis 5 (artabas) wheat.
5⸢..?..⸣ Petosiris [_]: 2½ (artabas) wheat.
6Senpachnoumis [_]: 5 (artabas) wheat.
7Yields 7½ (artabas) wheat, (plus) 5 (artabas) wheat.
8Peteyris, son of Imouthes (and?) Pachnoumis: 5 (artabas) wheat.
9Yields 12½ (artabas) wheat (plus) 5 (artabas) wheat [_] [[5 (artabas) wheat]].
102nd of Thot: [_]2½ (artabas) wheat (plus) ⸢5⸣ (artabas) wheat.
119th day [_]: 5 (artabas) wheat.
1210th day [_]: 3½ (artabas) wheat again.
13Temple income receiving office(?): Distribution of 10(?) (artabas) wheat.
1417th day [_]: 5 (artabas) wheat.
1518th day [_]: 2½ (artabas) wheat.
16Temple income receiving office(?): Distribution of ½ (artabas) wheat.
1720+xth day [_]: 5 (artabas wheat).
18⸢///⸣ 10 again. Kite (?) ⸢..?..⸣
19⸢..?..⸣
20⸢..?..⸣ 4th(?) of Thot: 2½ (artabas) wheat.
2125th day: 10 (artabas) wheat.
2226th day [_]: ½ (artabas) wheat again.
2327th day: 7½ (artabas) wheat.
2428th day: 6½ (artabas) wheat, ..?.. .
2529th day [_]: 2 (artabas) wheat (plus) ⸢///⸣ (artabas) wheat.

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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38080 man Pachnoumis (P. 11456 a) Pa-H̱nm pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period - Early Ptolemaic dynasty -664 BCE -222 BCE ;

 

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Literature

 

DatasetID 100088
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100088 (= Tablet Berlin P. 11456), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.