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Pap. Berlin P. 13582

TEI-XML-File: https://p612399.webspaceconfig.de/xml/elephantine_erc_db_100280.tei.xml

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
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
1ḥsb.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
2Ḏd-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”.
3pa 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
4nty 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.
135th regnal year, Phamuti of Pharaoh Dareios LPH. Payment receipt issued by the second wab priest of Chnoum the Great, lord of Elephantine,
2Teos, 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,
4to 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.
P_13582_Rv_R_001
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Yb (places.xml#s3)
  • rsy (places.xml#r41)
  • Swn (places.xml#s8)
  • Swn (places.xml#s8)
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    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

     

    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.