Pap. Berlin P. 13578

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13578
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	registered as existing during revision (1958)
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty: high
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 1906 and 1907
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, light
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	283 mm \| 73 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Some larger rectangular losses in the upper left section. Small breaks along the foldings.
Mounting	framed under glass

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	On top broken off in undetermined extent. Loss of the endings of the first preserved lines.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Sorgfältige, etwas steife mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrsift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2). In addition four autographic witness signatures.
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire sheet, without right margin. Length of lines differing. At the bottom a small margin.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+19	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	70
Column Height (in mm)	265
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	70 x x+265	0

Modern Title	Loan contract about three silver deben.
Ancient Archives	private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sochotes, son of Chesseus
Text Types	documentary \| contract \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Loan contract about three silver deben. As reward the plowing of farmland of 10 aruras is declared.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

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x+1	ı͗.ı͗r-n=y mtw=y ḏı͗.t tš
x+2	ḥsb.t 5 ı͗bd 4 šmw ḥḏ (dbn) 1 ḥsb.t 6 ı͗bd 2 ꜣḫ.t ḥḏ (dbn) 1
x+3	ı͗bd 1 pr.t ḥḏ (dbn) 1 r ḥḏ (dbn) 3 ꜥn pꜣ ḥḏ nty-ı͗w bn-ı͗w=y
x+4	ḏı͗.t s ẖn=w n nꜣ ssw nty-ḥry ı͗w=y r
x+5	ḏı͗.t s ı͗rm pꜣy=f 1-r-1½ n pꜣ ı͗bd nty m-sꜣ
x+6	pꜣ ı͗bd rn=f ı͗wt sṱ nb mtw=y ḏı͗.t
x+7	skꜣ=w n=k sṯꜣ 10 ꜣḥ ẖn pꜣ ḥtp-nṯr
x+8	H̱nm n-mꜣy ı͗w=w skꜣ ı͗w=w
x+9	mn n ı͗ḥ pr pꜣ ꜣḥ n.ı͗m=w nty-ı͗w
x+10	bn-ı͗w=(y) ḏı͗.t s n=k ẖn tꜣy sṯꜣ 10 ꜣḥ
x+11	nty sẖ ḥry ı͗w=y (r) ḏı͗.t n=k pꜣy=f šmw tn (rtb) bd.t
x+12	15 r (sṯꜣ) 1 ꜣḥ mtw=k wṱ pꜣ šmw H̱nm
x+13	ẖn=w n ḥtr.ṱ ı͗wt mn ı͗wt
x+14	sṱ nb n-ḏr.t Sbk-ḥtp sꜣ Ḫnsw-pꜣ-mtr ¹According to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 53.
x+15	n ḥsb.t 5 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 25
x+16	sẖ Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Ḏd-Ḥr
x+17	sẖ Nḫt.ṱ-Mn sꜣ Ḥr
x+18	sẖ Pa-nfr sꜣ I͗ꜥḥ-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s
x+19	sẖ Wn-nfr sꜣ Sbk-ḥtp

¹ According to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 53.

x+1	against me. And I will give [///] installments(?) [///]
x+2	5th regnal year, Mesore: 1 silver (deben); 6th regnal year, Paophi: 1 silver (deben);
x+3	Tybi: 1 silver (deben). Yields 3 silver (deben) again. The amount of money, which I will not
x+4	give at the [above mentioned] dates, this [I will]
x+5	give together with one and a half times its value within that month which is after
x+6	the month mentioned, without any objection. And I will [cause,]
x+7	that 10 aruras farmland will be plowed for you from the offering donation
x+8	of Chnoum anew, as they are plowed
x+9	and (equipped) constantly with cattle (and) grain. The farmland thereof which (I) will
x+10	not restitute to you from these 10 aruras farmland
x+11	mentioned above: I will deliver its crop disposal to you:
x+12	15 (artabas) emmer per 1 (arura) field. And you will pay the crop disposal of Chnoum
x+13	from them, with necessity and without delay or
x+14	objection. Issued by Sochotes, son of Chons-pa-meter
x+15	in the 5th regnal year, 25th of Epeiph.
x+16	Countersigned Pachnoumis, son of Teos.
x+17	Countersigned Nechtminis, son of Horos.
x+18	Countersigned Panouphis, son of Artais.
x+19	Countersigned by Onnophris, son of Sochotes.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
1285	man	Nechtminis, son of Horos	Nḫt.ṱ-mn sꜢ Ḥr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (middle)	05	Epeiph	25	-264 BCE -180 BCE	Dating by palaeography;

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DatasetID	100259
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	45689
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100259 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13578), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.