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Tablet Berlin P. 11455

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Tablet Berlin P. 11455
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory In Müller, FuB 20-21 (1980), 83 note 18 erroneously classified as lost since 1945.
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) 73 mm | 310 mm | 6 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation On both sides of the lower section large parts are broken off. In this condition already during the discovery.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object two-sided
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Partly faded or darkened. The line beginnings in the lower part are lost.
Script, Primary Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Narrow line pitch. The text covers nearly the enture surface, without lateral margins. Small margins on top and at the bottom On the inner side the middle part remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 24 15
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 70 70
Column Height (in mm) 270 270
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 70 x 270 70 x 270

 

Text Content

Modern Title daily account of payments
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list
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.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text Im Inventarbuch Handabschrift einer Zeile.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
side 1
1
2
3 sw-20 1
4sw-22 1 sw-24 1 sw-25 1 sw-28 1
5sw-29 1 sw-ꜥrqı͗ ½ r 18
6sw-1 1 sw-2 1 sw-3 1 sw-4 1 sw-5 1
7sw-6 1 sw-7 1 sw-8 1 sw-9 1 sw-11 1
8sw-12 1 sw-13 1
9sw-14 1 sw-15 1 (r) 15
10sw-10+x ///
11sw-10+x ///
12sw-26(?) 1 sw-28 2 sw-29 2
13/// Pꜣ-šr-pꜣ-wr /// [_] 2
14
15/// sw-12 ½ sw-17 sw-19 1
16⸢sw-21 1⸣ sw-22 2
17 Ns-pꜣ-ḏı͗-pꜣ-wr
18///
19 /// sw-8 1 sw-10 ½
20 /// ½
21 sw-20 1 sw-23 2 sw-25 1
22 ///
23 ///
24 ///
25 ///
26 sw-20 ½ sw-21
side 2
1///
2///
3///
4/// 1
5sw-8 1 sw-9 1 sw-x 1 sw-12 1
6sw-19 1
7///
8///
9///
10sw-8 ///
11sw-9 ///
12sw-10 ///
13(horizontal stroke)
14sw-11 ///
15sw-12 ///
16sw-13 ///
17Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗y-m-ḥtp 2
18sw-2 1 5
19sw-7 1 sw-8 1 sw-11 3 sw10+x
20sw-14 1 sw-15 2 sw-16 1
21 sw-22 8(?)
22 sw 25 [_] 1 sw-27 1
23 1
24 Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ 1
25 1 sw-12 1
26 2
27 1
28 1
29 1

1⸢..?..⸣
2⸢..?..⸣
3⸢..?..⸣ 20th day: 1
422nd day: 1. 24th day: 1. 25th day: 1. 28th day: 1.
529th day: 1. 30th day: ½. Yields: 18.
61st day: 1. 2nd day: 1. 3rd day: 1. 4th day: 1- 5th day: 1.
76th day: 1. 7th day 1. 8th day: 1. 9th day: 1. 11th day :1.
812th day: 1. 13th day: <1>.
914th day: 1. 15th day: 1. [_] (Yields) 15 .
1010+xth day: ⸢///⸣
1110+xth day: ⸢///⸣
1226(?)th day: 1. 28th day: 2 ..?.. 29th day: 2.
13⸢///⸣ Psenpoeris ⸢///⸣ [_] 2 .
14⸢..?..⸣
15⸢///⸣ 12th day: ½. 17th day: ..?.. 19th day: 1.
1621st day: 1. 22nd day ..?. 2.
17⸢..?..⸣ Espetpoeris ⸢..?..⸣
18⸢///⸣
19[///]⸢///⸣ 8th day: 1. 10th day: ½.
20[///]⸢///⸣ ½.
21[///] 20th day: 1. 23rd day: 2. 25th day: 1.
22[///]⸢///⸣[///]
23[///]⸢///⸣[///]
24[///]⸢///⸣[///]
25[///]⸢///⸣[///]
26[///] 20th day: ½. 21st day: [///].
1⸢///⸣
2⸢///⸣
3⸢///⸣
4⸢///⸣ 1
58th day: 1. 9th day: 1. xth day: 1. 12th day: 1.
619th day: 1
7⸢///⸣
8⸢///⸣
9⸢///⸣
108th day: ⸢///⸣
119th day: ⸢///⸣
1210th day: ⸢///⸣
13(horizontal stroke)
1411th day: ⸢///⸣
1512th day: ⸢///⸣
1613th day: ⸢///⸣
17Peteimouthes ..?.. 2
182nd day: 1. ..?.. 5.
197th day: 1. 8th day: 1. 11th day: 3 10+xth day: [///]
20[14th day:] 1. 15th day: 2. 16th day:1
21[///] ..?.. 22nd day: 8(?) ..?..
22[///]25th day: [_] 1. 27th day: 1.
23[///] 1
24[///] Pelaias: 1
25[///]: 1. 12th day: 1
26[///]: 2
27[///]⸢..?..⸣ 1
28[///]: 1
29[///]: 1
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
37910 man Espetpoeris Ns-pꜣ-ḏı͗-pꜣ-wr 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 100091
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 100091 (= Tablet Berlin P. 11455), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.