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Collection | Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
Inventory Number | Pap. Cairo EM CG 50162 |
Publication Number | P.Bürgsch. 13 bis = P.Eleph. 16 |
Current Location | Cairo, Egyptian Museum (transferred to the museum in 1912) |
Publication Permission Status | (unknown) |
Publication Status | published |
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 |
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) | Minutoli, Heinrich von Certainty: high |
Object Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 210 mm | 130 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | edged damaged. Some larger holes along the foldings. |
Mounting | framed between glass |
Localization of Text on Object | recto | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | perpendicular (recto) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Line beginnings and endings are damaged. Some text losses along the foldings. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Script, additional A | Greek | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Language, additional A | Greek, Ancient | |
Comments on Handwriting | Mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 11 + 3 + 3 (Greek) | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 120 | |
Column Height (in mm) | 170 | |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 120 x 170 | 0 |
Modern Title | mkmk-petition (hypomnema) concerning installment payment for fields (original) |
Ancient Archives | praktor archive | Milon |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Petitition (mkmk): The brothers Pinyris, Berenebthis, and Psintaes Junior, all sons of Estphenis, wrote to Praktor Milon requesting another man to pay the three remaining installments for two fields, because they cannot pay them themselves. Greek subscription mentioning the subject of the hypomnema, the date and the number (third hypomnema). This is the original hypomnema, while the draft is preserved in Pap. Berlin P. 13523. |
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) | Greek subscription: Subject of the hypomnema, the date and the number (third hypomnema). |
Location of Composition | Edfou / Apollonpolis magna Upper Egypt, 2nd nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Comments on Text | Draft of this papyrus is preserved in Pap. Berlin P. 13523. |
Multilingualism | Bilingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
640 | man | Berenebthis, son of Estphenis | Mr-(n-)ỉb-Ptḥ sꜢ Ns-šw-Tfnw.t = Mr-Ỉb-Ptḥ = Βερενέβθις = Βερηνέπθις = Πρηνέβθις | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios III Euergetes | 25 | Phaophi | 30 | -223 December 12 BCE | Internal dating, without name of the ruler.; |
DatasetID | 100284 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Berlpap | 03764 |
Trismegistos | 2789 |
Papyri.info | ddbdp/p.eleph;;16 |
Author | Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek) |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100284 (= Pap. Cairo EM CG 50162), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek). |