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Pap. Berlin P. 13606

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 13606
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory joining: Pap. Berlin P. 13606 a-b + Pap. Berlin P. 13615 + Pap. Berlin P. 15824 a-b
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 / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
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 1908
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, dark
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 275 mm | 600 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Fragmentary. In the course of restauration and framing Pap. Berlin P. 13606 was cut in two pieces a and b.
Mounting In 2 glass frames

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) Several partly joining fragments. All line beginnings and endings lost in undetermined extent. Several holes with text losses.
Script, Primary Early Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Geübte, ziemlich sorgfältige frühdemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wilde line pitch. Col. 1: 3+y l. Col 2: 23 l. Col 3: 23 l. Col 4: 23 l. Col 5: x+15 l. Columns mainly right-aligned and with large distance to each other.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+89+y 0
Quantity of Columns 5 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 575 0
Column Height (in mm) 230 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance ca. 575 x 230 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of participants of a military expedition under pharaoh Amasis
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content List of participants of a military expedition under pharaoh Amasis. Mention of Syrian mercenaries attending the expedition.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_13606_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_13606_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
115 (unknown) (Currently unknown) (Currently unknown) (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Amasis 41 Choiak -530 April 3 BCE -530 May 2 BCE internal dating, with name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

P_13606_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_13606_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100272
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 45693
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100272 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13606), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.