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Pap. Berlin P. 13534

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 13534
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 1906
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 131 mm | 258 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The lower part and the left part are broken off in undetermined extent. Some minor holes in the sheet. On the left side a continous vertikal break.
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) Partly faded. All line endings lost, lower part of text broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Sorgfältige, etwas steife spätdemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The right aligned text shows a medium margin on the right side, and a very broad one on top.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 240 0
Column Height (in mm) 80 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 240 x 80 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title contract of transfer of house shares
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | contract | vertical format
Summary of Content Contract between Pachnoumis and four siblings, children of Petosorsmetism beneath them one woman, concerning a transfer of his house shares.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: contractant - Acticvity of woman: seller of house shares - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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1ḥsb.t 28 ı͗bd 2 pr.t sw 28 n Gysrs pꜣ nṯr ḏd ı͗rı͗-ꜥꜣ 1According to Zauzich, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). Spiegelberg reads „wn-pr?“.H̱nm ꜥꜣ nb Yb pꜣ nṯr ꜥꜣ wꜥb mn 2Reading suggested by Zauzich, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). By-ꜥnḫ 3According to Zauzich, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). Spiegelberg interprets by-ꜥnḫ as a title and reads the following phrases ı͗t-nṯr … n H̱nm… . šnꜥ n H̱nm Pa-H̱nm
2ḫnꜥ šnꜥ 4For this reading instead of ꜥmr cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 204. n H̱nm Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-Ns-pꜣ-mte sꜣ sp snw ḥnꜥ šnꜥ 5For this reading instead of ꜥmr cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 204. n H̱nm Ḥr-pꜣ-ꜣs.t sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-Ns-pꜣ-mte ḥnꜥ s.t-ḥm.t Tꜣy-ḏı͗-pꜣ- 6According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C34. ta Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-Ns-pꜣ-mte r s 4 mw.t=w
3ı͗w=f wḥm n ẖ.t wꜥ.t m-ẖn ı͗wy.t ḥry.t n Yb r.ı͗n=y r dbꜣ-ḥḏ ı͗w ı͗r ı͗rı͗-ꜥꜣ H̱nm ꜥꜣ nb Yb pꜣ nṯr ꜥꜣ ı͗w=f n pꜣ ı͗rpy n H̱nm n Ḫn-Mn 7According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C34. Spiegelberg reads „welcher am Tempel des Chnoum am Südkanal (ḫn rs) ist“. Ns-pꜣ-mte
4n tꜣ s.t sẖ n Hty 8According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C34. Spiegelberg gives „…“. sꜣ Pa-sy n Ḫn-Mn 9According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C34. Spiegelberg gives ḫt mḥyty. ḥnꜥ tꜣy(=y) ky tꜣ 1/9 n pꜣ ꜥ.wy n rn=f r ı͗n=y r dbꜣ-ḥḏ ı͗w ı͗r ḥꜣ.ty-ꜥ n Swn n Pr-sy Pa-mte sꜣ Byllws ḥnꜥ s.t-ḥm.t Tꜣy-ḏı͗-
5ḏr=f n wš pš nt ı͗w n nꜣ tꜣ n ꜥ.wy r.ı͗n=y r dbꜣ-ḥḏ n Ḫn-Mn ḥnꜥ pꜣ 1/9 r.ı͗n=y r dbꜣ-ḥḏ n Pr-sy nty sẖ ḥry ẖn=w rsy r pꜣ sbt n pꜣ ı͗rpy
6wne (?) ẖr ḏꜣḏꜣ r nꜣ hyn.w 10According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C34. n pꜣ ꜥ.wy rn=f šp=f(?) mtw=ṯn st nꜣy=ṯn wn.w n nꜣ tꜣ(.w) n ꜥ.wy nty sẖ ḥry ı͗rm nꜣ 1/9 nty sẖ ḥry r 11According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C34. ¼ r pꜣ ẖ.t n.ı͗m=ṯn
7r.ı͗n=y r dbꜣ-ḥḏ ı͗w ı͗r nb n pꜣ tꜣ ḏı͗=y wꜥb n=ṯn r sẖ nb
8=ṯn s 12Reading suggested by Zauzich, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). ı͗w=y
9ff.

1 According to Zauzich, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). Spiegelberg reads „wn-pr?“.
2 Reading suggested by Zauzich, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971).
3 According to Zauzich, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). Spiegelberg interprets by-ꜥnḫ as a title and reads the following phrases ı͗t-nṯr … n H̱nm… .
4 For this reading instead of ꜥmr cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 204.
5 For this reading instead of ꜥmr cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 204.
6 According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C34.
7 According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C34. Spiegelberg reads „welcher am Tempel des Chnoum am Südkanal (ḫn rs) ist“.
8 According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C34. Spiegelberg gives „…“.
9 According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C34. Spiegelberg gives ḫt mḥyty.
10 According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C34.
11 According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C34.
12 Reading suggested by Zauzich, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971).
128th regnal year, 28th of Mecheir of Caesar (Augustus), the god. Thus has spoken the pastophor of Khnum the Great master of Elephantine the great god, wab priest and herdsman Bienchis, the baker of Khnum, Pachnoumis [///],
2and the baker of Khnum Petosorsmetis, son of the homonymous, and the baker [of] Khnum Harpaesis, son of Petosorsmetis, and the lady Ta-di-pa-..?.., daughter of Petosorsmetis, altogether 4 persons, their mother is [NN: You have satisfied my heart with the money … shares of the house 1According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C34. Spiegelberg gives „Ich trete euch ein Neuntel meines Hauses ab“.]
3with one floor in the central quarter of Elephantine, which I bought from (the) pastophor of Khnum, master of Elephantine, the great god, who serves in the temple of Khnum in Akhmim, Espmetis [///]
4in the office of Hatres, son of Pasis, in Akhmim; together with (my) other 1/9 share of the house in question, which I bought from the Hatia in Syene and Ptolemais, Pametis, son of Billos, and from the lady Tete-[///]
5complete, undivided, … the shares of the house, which I bought in Akhmim, together with the 1/9 which I bought in Ptolemais, which is mentioned above in it, south of the enclosure of the temple [///]
6which were before [///] [yields the] neighbours of this house in question ..?.. [///]. [They] belong to you, your share of the house mentioned above, [together with] the 1/9 mentioned above, yielding ¼ to each of you [///]
7[which I] bought … every … on earth [///. I will cause] them to be clear for you from every document [///]
8[///] your… I will [///]
9ff.[///]

1 According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C34. Spiegelberg gives „Ich trete euch ein Neuntel meines Hauses ab“.
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Yb (places.xml#s3)
  • ı͗wy.t ḥry.t n Yb (places.xml#s44)
  • Yb (places.xml#s3)
  • Ḫn-Mn (places.xml#s18)
  • Ḫn-Mn (places.xml#s18)
  • Swn (places.xml#s8)
  • Pr-sy (places.xml#s40)
  • Ḫn-Mn (places.xml#s18)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    34860 man Bienchis (P 13534) By-ꜥnḫ pre-Coptic Egyptian

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Augustus 28 Mecheir 28 -2 February 22 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

     

    Pictures

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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 100270
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 45679
    Author Jan Moje
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 100270 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13534), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.