Pap. Berlin P. 13585

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13585
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)	278 mm \| 48 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	The uppper part is broken off in undetermined but doubtless only small extent. Two rectangular holes on the right and the left of the upper section.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	The papyrus is still mounted on paper (06/2016).

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, presumably few lines lost only.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Geübte, sorgfältige und gut lesbare mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2). Slightly oblique to the upper left.
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire sheet, with a small and equal right and an unequal left margin. At the bottom a larger space remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+24	0
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	44
Column Height (in mm)	25
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	44 x x+25	0

Modern Title	letter concerning quarrels between Chnoum priests
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Teonurisephonychos, son of Imouthes
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Letter of Teonurisephonychos, son of Imouthes, containing an answer on a letter received earlier. This correspondence focuses on a dispute between Chnoum priests. The sender expresses his wish for information on his opponent through the lesonis, who is presumably the addressee.
Location of Composition	Schutb / Shas-hotep Upper Egypt, 13th nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Transcription

Translation

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x+1	ḏd=w
x+2	ḫr ı͗r=w ḫnṱ ı͗rm=f
x+3	n wꜥ.t md(.t) bn-ı͗w Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Mḥ(y.t)
x+4	ẖn nꜣ rmṯ.w nty-ı͗w=w mḥṱ n
x+5	ḏr.t.ṱ=w n md(.t) ı͗n wn
x+6	wꜥ.t šꜥ.t ı͗w ı͗r s nꜣ wꜥb.w
x+7	ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr nꜣ wꜥb.w st ı͗r-rḫ
x+8	pꜣ nḫt.ṱ nty ḫpr bn-pw=y
x+9	rḫ ḏı͗.t ı͗w-ı͗w.w wꜥb r rsy
x+10	nꜣ wꜥb.w (n) Wsı͗r nty ı͗r wꜥb n H̱nm
x+11	nty dy šn=w s (r-)dbꜣ.ṱ=f
x+12	mtr=w ı͗r=w wꜥ.t šꜥ(.t)
x+13	ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr nꜣ wꜥb.w ꜥn
x+14	my ḥn=w s ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr
x+15	pꜣ mr-šn r ḏı͗.t ı͗r=y
x+16	swn tꜣ md.t-rmṯ-nmḥ
x+17	nty-ı͗w=w r ı͗r=s n Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Mḥ(y.t) ¹Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 53, also concerning the abouve mentioned readings Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Tfn.t und Pꜣ-ḏı͗-tpı͗(?).
x+18	(r-)dbꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-ꜣs.t pꜣy=f šr mtw=w ḏı͗.t
x+19	hb n=y Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Mḥ(y.t)n tꜣ nty-ı͗w=w (r)
x+20	ı͗r s n=f nb ı͗w=f-ḫpr ı͗w
x+21	wn md(.t) dy my ḥn=w s
x+22	r ḏı͗.t hb=w n=y n.ı͗m=s sẖ
x+23	Ḏd-I͗n-ḥr-ı͗w=f-ꜥnḫ sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp n
x+24	ḥsb.t 9 ı͗bd 2 šmw sw 4

¹ Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 53, also concerning the abouve mentioned readings Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Tfn.t und Pꜣ-ḏı͗-tpı͗(?).

x+1	They have spoken [///]
x+2	One is used to quarrel with him
x+3	concerning a matter. Petemous does not belong
x+4	to those people whose
x+5	hands (can) be taken in a matter. There is
x+6	a letter made by the wab priests of …
x+7	to the of … . One knows
x+8	the strong one, who arose(?). I could not
x+9	cause a wab priest to come to the south.
x+10	The wab priests of Osiris who are (also) priests of Chnoum
x+11	and who (live) here, inquired about him.
x+12	They agreed. They wrote a letter
x+13	to the wab priests, too.
x+14	The lesonis
x+15	may be ordered to cause me
x+16	to hear about the suspension
x+17	which is to be granted to Petemous
x+18	because of Peteesis, his son. And it should be caused, that
x+19	Petemous send to me concerning everything
x+20	which shall be done to him. If it happens
x+21	that here is something (which is desired): One may order
x+22	to cause to send to me concerning it! Written by
x+23	Teonurisephonychos, son of Imouthes, in
x+24	the 9th regnal year, 4th of Payni.

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
1670	man	Peteesis, son of Petemous	PꜢ-ḏỉ-Ꜣs.t sꜢ PꜢ-ḏỉ-mḥ(y.t)	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early)	09	Payni	04	-332 August 1 BCE -222 July 27 BCE	Dating by palaeography.;

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DatasetID	100261
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46449
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100261 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13585), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.