Pap. Berlin P. 13572

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13572
Current Location	exhibition \| Neues Museum, Berlin
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 \| 205 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Minor cracks in the sheet. In the upper section five horizontally stringed holes from the original sealing.
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)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Complete.
Script, Primary	Early Demotic
Language, Primary	Early Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Flüchtige, sehr kursive frühdemotische Geschäftsschrift. Dazu vier eigenhändige Zeugenunterschriften." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed onto the upper three-fifth of the sheet, with a small and equal right margin and a broad but slightly trapezoid upper one. Length of lines differing. The lower two-fifth remain uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	10	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	190	0
Column Height (in mm)	134	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	190 x 134	0

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt concerning an effected payment
Ancient Archives	private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Nepherpre-machis , son of Parates
Text Types	documentary \| contract documentary \| receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt and contract of Nepherpremachis, son of Parates, to Eschnompmetis, concerning a payment effected by the addressee via another man. With autographic witness signatures.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	Nꜣ-nfr-ı͗b-Rꜥ-m-ꜣḫ.t sm r Ns-H̱nm-pꜣ-mtr pꜣ mr-šn ı͗ ḏı͗ Pꜣ-Rꜥ
2	qy pꜣy=f ꜥḥꜥ ḏı͗=k mtr ḥꜣ.ṱ(=y) n pꜣ ¼ n nꜣ ḥḏ(.w) r.ḏı͗=k r.r=w n Inḫy(?) ¹For the rejected reading Pẖe cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 49.
3	r ḏı͗.t st n=y ḏı͗=k st n=y ḥꜣ.ṱ(=y) mtr(.w) n.ı͗m=w ı͗w(=y) r ḏi.t wy Inḫy(?) ²For the rejected reading Pẖe cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 49.
4	r.r=k n.ı͗m=w ı͗w(=y) tm ḏı͗.t wy=f ı͗w(=y) r ḏı͗.t n=k ḥḏ (dbn) 5 ı͗wty
5	ḏd qnb nb n pꜣ tꜣ ı͗rm=k n-ḏr.t Nꜣ-nfr-ı͗b-Rꜥ-m-ꜣḫ.t sꜣ Pꜣ-ẖrṱ
6	n ḥsb.t 30 ı͗bd 2 pr.t sw 16
7	I͗ꜥḥ-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s sꜣ Bn-pw-H̱nm-ḫꜣꜥ-r.r=w
8	Ns-bꜣ-nb-ḏd.t ³Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): Ns-bꜣ. sꜣ Ḥr-wḏꜣ
9	Ns-pꜣ-mtr-šps pꜣ ḥm-nṯr 4.nw
10	Wsı͗r-wr sꜣ Pꜣ-r.ḏı͗-Inp ⁴Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae gives here only „Pete...“.

¹ For the rejected reading Pẖe cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 49.
² For the rejected reading Pẖe cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 49.
³ Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): Ns-bꜣ.
⁴ Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae gives here only „Pete...“.

1	Nepherpremachis greets Es[chnoum]pmetis, the [le]sonis. Oh may Pre
2	cause his lifetime to be long! You have satisfied (my) heart with the ¼ of the money, which you have transcribed to Inchy(?),
3	in order to give them to me (by Inchy). You have given them to me (by yourself). (My) heart is satisfied with them. (I) will cause Inchy(?) to withdraw
4	from you with respect to it. If (I) do not cause him to withdraw from you, (I) will endow you with 5 silver (deben), without
5	taking any lawsuit on earth against you. Issued by Nepherpremachis, son of Parates,
6	in the 30th regnal year, 16th of Mecheir.
7	Artais, son of Benpouchnoumchaaroys,
8	Esbendetis, son of [Har]yothes,
9	Espmetsepsis, the fourth priest,
10	Osoroeris, son of Petenouphis.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
620	man	Artais, son of Benpouchnoum-chaa-roys	ỈꜤḥ-ỉ:ỉr-ḏỉ-s sꜢ Bn-pw-H̱nm-ḫꜢꜤ-n=w	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Darius I	30	Mecheir	15	-492 June 1 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

DatasetID	100290
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	45686
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100290 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13572), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.