Pap. Berlin P. 13580

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13580
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	registered as existing during revision (1958)
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

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

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, light
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	272 mm \| 58 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	The upper part is broken off in small extent only.
Mounting	framed under glass

Text Basic Information

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 possibly one line is lost. Ending of the first preserved line damaged.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Flüchtige, geübte mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text shows no lateral margins. At the bottom a larger part, presumably about ⅓ of the entire sheet, remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	(1?+)13	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	55
Column Height (in mm)	165
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	55 x 165	0

Text Content

Modern Title	Order of food supply for an temple inspector
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sehapmoys
Text Types	documentary \| hypomnema
Summary of Content	Order of a person whose name is lost to a son of Eschnoumpmetis and the scribes of the Chnoum temple to supply the inspector of the temples visiting Elephantine and Syene with a goose. The document was written by Sehapmoys.
Location of Composition	unknown (in Upper Egypt) Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	ḫrw NN m-bꜣḥNN
2	sꜣ Ns-H̱nm-pꜣ-mtr ı͗rm ¹According to Vleeming, DBL in A. D. 2007 – 2009 (2010). Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993).
3	nꜣ sẖ.w H̱nm
4	my ḏı͗=w ꜣpd 1 r ms 1/12
5	r ꜣpd 1 ꜥn n pꜣ rd n
6	ꜣmnts pꜣ mḥ-2
7	n Pa-Ḫmnw ²This reading instead of pa Ḫmnw „the (chief) of Hermopolis“ according to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 53. ı͗.ı͗r ı͗y r rsy
8	r mšḏı͗ Yb
9	Swn m-ı͗r ꜥnꜥn=f
10	n.ı͗m=f sẖ Ṯꜣy-Ḥp-n.ı͗m=w
11	n ḥsb.t 5 ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 2
12	ı͗w=y (r) ı͗n pꜣy=f šp r rsy
13	gr swn.ṱ=f n ḥḏ
14	m-ı͗r srrꜥ ³For further translation varieties cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 53. md(.t)

¹ According to Vleeming, DBL in A. D. 2007 – 2009 (2010). Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993).
² This reading instead of pa Ḫmnw „the (chief) of Hermopolis“ according to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 53.
³ For further translation varieties cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 53.

1	[Voice of NN before NN,]
2	son of Eschnoumpmetis,
3	and the scribes of Chnoum:
4	May one give a goose, yields the 12th part of a calf,
5	yields a goose again, to the attorney
6	of Amyntas, the assistant
7	of Pachmounis, who came to the south
8	to inspect Elephantine
9	(and) Syene! Do not deny him this!
10	Written by Sehapmoys
11	in the 5th regnal year, 2nd of Pachons.
12	I will deliver his compensation to the south
13	or his value in an amount of money.
14	Do not delay anything!

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Places (read out from edition)

Yb (places.xml#s3)

Swn (places.xml#s8)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
580	man	Amyntas	Ꜣmnts	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early)	05	Pachons	02	-332 BCE -222 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

DatasetID	100260
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46448
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100260 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13580), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.