Pap. Berlin P. 13587

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13587
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)	272 mm \| 65 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	The upper part is broken off presumably in the extent of one line only. The right edge shows slightly damages.
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, likely one line lost only.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Geübte und deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper half of the sheet, without lateral and upper margins. Length of lines varying. The lower half remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	(1+)15	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	60
Column Height (in mm)	-10150
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	60 x (10+)150	0

Modern Title	letter concerning money payment
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Letter to the high priest Eschnompmetis concerning payment of silver kite. According to Zauzich divergent from the regular Elephantine letter style.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Transcription

Translation

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x+1	I perform the blessings of Eschnompmetis,
x+2	the high priest, before Osiris, Horus, Isis (and)
x+3	the gods of Abydos NOTE. They may grant
x+4	that you are exalted among the praised ones of Chnoum,
x+5	the great god. Thus has sent to me Parates (A) NOTE, son of Payris
x+6	concerning the 4 5/6 silver kite: ‘Thus has spoken
x+7	Parates (B), son of Inaros: I have given them (scil. the money) to
x+8	Parates (C), son of Eskasothes, (in) your name.
x+9	There is no money which
x+10	Parates (B), son of Inaros, would have given to me (in) the name
x+11	of Parates (A), son of Payris. There is no
x+12	money which he would have given (to me), precisely nothing!
x+13	Osiris, the great god, may cause me to stand
x+14	before the high priest without blemish.
x+15	Written in the 24th regnal year, 6th of Pachons.

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
10010	man	Eschnoumpmetis high priest (P. 13587)	Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mtr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	24	Pachons	06	-223 June 16 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler. Fixing on Ptolemaios III. due to Pap. Berlin P. 13565 (exact dating), where one of the persons mentioned here is named, too.;

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den Brinker, Anna Adriana & Muhs, Brian & Vleeming, Sven P., A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents (2005). (50)
Lüddeckens, Erich, Papyri, Demotische, Berlin (1982). (Nr. F37)
Martin, Cary J., The Demotic Texts (1996). (327-328 Nr. C 19)
Porten, Bezalel, The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change (1996). (C19)
Vleeming, Sven P., The Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents in A. D. 2007 (2008). (8)
Vleeming, Sven P., The Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents in A. D. 2007 – 2009 (2010). (4)
Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). (Nr. 55 )
Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Papyri von der Insel Elephantine 1 (1978). (Nr. 13587 )

DatasetID	100264
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46489
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100264 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13587), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.