Pap. Berlin P. 13582

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13582
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
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, light
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	280 mm \| 339 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	The right edge is broken off. Some vertical breaks along the folding.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	Three continuous vertical sheet joins (kollesis), on the left side (3,5 cm), in the middle (ca. 1,5), as well as at the very right rim (2 cm).

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)	Beginning of all lines at a length of about 15 mm lost, otherwise complete.
Script, Primary	Early Demotic
Language, Primary	Early Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Gute frühdemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Narrow line pitch. The text is placed onto the upper third of the sheet, with broad upper and left margins. The lower two-thirds of the sheet remain uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	280
Column Height (in mm)	65
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	280 x 65	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for money paying
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive \| correspondence with Persian satraps
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Espmetis, son of Haryotes (P. 13582)
Text Types	documentary \| receipt
Summary of Content	Pibesis, son of Peteese, is confirmed of having paid 2 silver deben to the strate treasury in responsibility of Farnava, commander of the Syene fortress. Presumably this was for the installment tax for his son Teos for appointing him as wab priest at the Chnoum temple.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	Similarity with Pap. Berlin P. 23594. Pressumably both issued by the same person (Teos, son of Pibesis, son of Peteesis (Zauzich)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

1	ḥsb.t 35 ı͗bd 4 pr.t n pr-ꜥꜣ Tꜣrywš ꜥnḫ-wḏꜣ-snb ı͗w n šp ¹According to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 50. r.ı͗r wꜥb 2.nw n H̱nm ꜥꜣ nb Yb
2	Ḏd-ḥr sꜣ Pꜣy-bs ḥḏ (dbn) 1 ḫr mḥꜣ ²Accordingto Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978), Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae gives „?“. r ẖ pꜣ rꜣ-5 ³Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): pꜣ psy „…entsprechend der Brennung (?),“ r.ı͗n Pꜣy-bs sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-ꜣs.t pꜣy=f ı͗t r tꜣ ꜥfṱy(.t) Prnw ⁴Editor: Prnwṱ “Pherendates”.
3	pa Tꜣ-šḏy-rsy nty ı͗w tꜣ rs(.t) ⁵Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): ⸢ḥ.t⸣ n Swn ḥn n=f r mḥ ḥḏ (dbn) 2 ḫr ⸢mḥꜣ⸣ r ẖ pꜣ rꜣ-5 r tꜣ ꜥfṱy(t.) n Prnw ⁶Editor: Prnwṱ “Pherendates”. pa Tꜣ-št-rsy
4	nty ı͗w tꜣ rsı͗(.t) ⁷For the reading cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52. n Swn ḥn n=f ı͗w=w šsp ı͗w=w swṱ ı͗w pꜣy=w ı͗w r.ı͗r=w n=f tꜣ ḥꜣ.t n-ẖ.ṱ=w sẖ Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Ḥr-wḏꜣ

¹ According to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 50.
² Accordingto Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978), Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae gives „?“.
³ Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): pꜣ psy „…entsprechend der Brennung (?),“
⁴ Editor: Prnwṱ “Pherendates”.
⁵ Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): ⸢ḥ.t⸣
⁶ Editor: Prnwṱ “Pherendates”.
⁷ For the reading cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52.

1	35th regnal year, Phamuti of Pharaoh Dareios LPH. Payment receipt issued by the second wab priest of Chnoum the Great, lord of Elephantine,
2	Teos, son of Pibesis: 1 silver (deben), refined(?) ¹According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), no.C35. ..?.. according to the fifth, which has brought Pibesis, son of Peteesis, his father, to the collection box of Farnava,
3	[the chief of the] Southern Land, to whom the fortress of Syene is entrusted, Total: 2 silver (deben), refined(?) ..?.., according to the fifth, to the collection box of Farnava, the chief of the Southern Land,
4	to whom the fortress of Syene is entrusted, They were received, as they are delivered, and as their payment which was made for him before was in them. Written by Espmetis, son of Haryotes.

¹ According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), no.C35.

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Places (read out from edition)

Yb (places.xml#s3)

rsy (places.xml#r41)

Swn (places.xml#s8)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
9050	man	Dareios I.	Tryꜣwš, דריוש, TꜢrywš, Ṱrywš	Old Persian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Darius I	35	Pharmuthi		-487 July 16 BCE -487 August 14 BCE	Internal dating, with name of the ruler.;

Pictures

P_13582_Rv_R_001

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Literature

den Brinker, Anna Adriana & Muhs, Brian & Vleeming, Sven P., A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents (2005). (15, 50)
Hughes, George R., The So-Called Pherendates Correspondence (1984). (84 - 85)
Lüddeckens, Erich, Papyri, Demotische, Berlin (1982). (no. E21b)
Martin, Cary J., The Demotic Texts (1996). (374-375 no. C 35)
Porten, Bezalel, The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change (1996). (C35)
Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). (no. 50, Taf.1)
Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Papyri von der Insel Elephantine 1 (1978). (no. 13582)

DatasetID	100280
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	45690
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100280 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13582), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.