Pap. Berlin P. 13579

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13579
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)	303 mm \| 68 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. One minor hole in the upper section.
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)	Upper part broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Geübte und überwiegend gut lesbare mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire sheet, without lateral margins. At the bottom a larger part in the height of 3 lines remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+20	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	70
Column Height (in mm)	265
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	70 x 264	0

Text Content

Modern Title	Letter of unclear context, including information on a journey to Philae
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Potemetous, son of Psintaes
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Letter of unclear context. Mention of incidents happeded to the sender. Information on a journey to Philae, while the sender travelled to the temple of Elephantine. The asigment of this text to the scribe Potemetous, son of Psintaes, was made by Martin, Cary J., The Demotic texts (1996), C10.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

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x+1	n skr ı͗.ı͗r Hgr
x+2	hb=y ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr=k n.ı͗m=w mn sḏy
x+3	byn n-wš ı͗r n-ḏr.t Ḥr bn-pw H̱nm
x+4	ḏı͗.t pḥ=w n-ḏr.ṱ=f gm=y pꜣ ḫpr
x+5	r šm=f r Pꜣ-ı͗w-rq ḏd=f md(.t) ꜥšꜣy
x+6	ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr Tgrṱry ¹Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 49 regarding a rejected reading variant. n pꜣy=y ꜥš-sḥn
x+7	bn-pw=f šp md(.t) r ḫrw=f n pꜣy=y ꜥš-sḥn
x+8	ḏı͗=y ı͗w r ḥ.t-nṯr Yb
x+9	ı͗rm nꜣy=y rmṯ.w ḏı͗=y r pꜣ ꜥ.wy-ḥtp H̱nm ²For the translation of this passage l. 9 – 10 cf, Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 49.
x+10	nꜣ md.w(t) r.ı͗w brḥ I͗ꜥḥ-ms
x+11	r-bw-nꜣy n.ı͗m=w sḏm=k s bn-pw=k
x+12	hb n=y n nꜣ ı͗.ı͗r-ḫpr n.ı͗m=k
x+13	mn (ḏꜣ) n nꜣ ḫm-ẖr.w nty (n)
x+14	N.t ı͗rm nꜣ rmṯ.w nty n.ı͗m=w
x+15	Wsı͗r-wr sꜣ I͗ꜥḥ-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s ı͗w=f ı͗w r rsy
x+16	my ḥn=w s r ḏı͗.t nw=w dbꜣ.ṱ=f
x+17	sẖ n ḥsb.t 19 ı͗bd 3 ꜣḫ.t sw 5
x+18	ı͗w=f ḫpr r ꜥḥꜥ=k ı͗rm pꜣ mr-ꜣḥ
x+19	my gm=f nꜣ md.w(t) nty ḫpr
x+20	n.ı͗m=y

¹ Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 49 regarding a rejected reading variant.
² For the translation of this passage l. 9 – 10 cf, Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 49.

x+1	[///] of sailing which Hakoris has made.
x+2	I have sent to you concerning this. There is no bad
x+3	saying(?) without assistance(?) by(?) Horos. Chnoum has not
x+4	caused them to attain to his hand. I have found
x+5	that he went to Philae. He has spoken many words
x+6	to Tegeritli-ye concerning my case.
x+7	To his statement, he did not accept any word of my case.
x+8	I have come to the temple of Elephantine
x+9	with my men. I am at the resting-place of Chnoum.
x+10	The things for which the fodderer Amasis came
x+11	hither: You heave heard them, (but) you have not
x+12	sent to me on account of that which has happened to you.
x+13	There is no (harm) to the young men who are (in)
x+14	Thebes, and to the men who are there.
x+15	Osoroeris, son of Artais: When he comes to the south,
x+16	let it be ordered to look after him.
x+17	Written in the 19th regnal year, 5th of Hathyr.
x+18	If you meet with the overseer of the field,
x+19	let him know the matters which have happened to
x+20	me.

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Places (read out from edition)

Pꜣ-ı͗w-rq (places.xml#s15)

Yb (places.xml#s3)

pꜣ ꜥ.wy-ḥtp H̱nm (places.xml#s150)

N.t (places.xml#s1341)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
560	man	Amasis	ỈꜤḥ-ms	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	19	Hathyr	05	-229 December 18 BCE	Dating by content (scribes);

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Literature

DatasetID	100262
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46487
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100262 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13579), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.