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Pap. Berlin P. 13584

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Metadata

Collection

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

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

Object

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).

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) 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

 

Text Content

Modern Title oracular inquiry concerning a possible theft
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | cultic archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian | oracular inquiry
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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1ı͗w=f ḫpr ı͗w wꜥb pꜣ ı͗.ı͗r ṯꜣy pꜣ ḥḏ n ḥsb.t 6
2my ı͗n=w n=y pꜣ bꜣk 1Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae amends: (r-bnr) „(heraus)gebracht“.

1 Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae amends: (r-bnr) „(heraus)gebracht“.
1If it is a wab priest, who took the money off in the 6th regnal year, 1Reading 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 this 2Lit.„the“. letter may be brought out to me!

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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People mentioned in Text

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)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty 06 -332 BCE -30 BCE Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

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.