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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	(Unknown [not mentioned in 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

 

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

• Müller, Wolfgang, Die Papyrusgrabung auf Elephantine 1906 - 1908. Das Grabungstagebuch der 1. und 2. Kampagne (1980). (83 Anm. 18)

 

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.