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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 13584 |
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 |
Object Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 34 mm | 53 mm | mm |
Dating | between -330 and -31 |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Only one hole in the lower middle part. |
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) | complete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Complete. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Gute mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the sheet, with small and equal margins on three sides except for the left side, where the text runs closely to the edge. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 2 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 50 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 25 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 50 x 25 | 0 |
Modern Title | oracular inquiry concerning a possible theft |
Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | cultic archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Oracular inquiry to an unidentified deity, presumably Chnoum, concerning the question if a wab priest has stolen money. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||
1 Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae amends: (r-bnr) „(heraus)gebracht“. |
1 Reading variant Zauzich, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971): „1| Wenn rein ist der Steuereinzieher des sechsten Regierunsgjahres…“. Reading variant Kaplony-Heckel: „1| Wenn es ein Wab-Priester ist, der die 1 ⅙ Silber(deben) weggenommen hat, …“ 2 Lit.„the“. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
8060 | not applicable | (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) | (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) | (none) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic dynasty | 06 | -332 BCE -30 BCE | Dating by palaeography.; |
DatasetID | 100265 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 48635 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100265 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13584), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |