Pap. Berlin P. 13568
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number |
Pap. Berlin P. 13568 |
| 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 Details |
"ruin of a private house" |
| 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) |
335 mm | 52 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation |
complete |
| State of Preservation |
A rectangular hole in the upper right corner. edges slightly frayed. |
| 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 |
Middle Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic Demotic |
| Comments on Handwriting |
"Flüchtige, doch relativ deutliche mitteldemotischre Geschäftsschrift." (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 half of the sheet, without lateral margins and a broad upper margin with a height of approximately two lines. The lower half remains uninscribed. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
13 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
45 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
170 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
45 x 170 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
letter in form of a contract concerning delivery of wine on schedule |
| Ancient Archives |
private archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | contract
- documentary | letter
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| Summary of Content |
Contract in form of al letter of Psenchonsis, son of Esonnophris, to Peteharpokrates, son of Esouris.
Promise of delivery of wine to the lesonis, for which a delivery out of schedule will cost 2 silver kite.
With countersignature of Espmetis, son of Chnoumemes.
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| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text |
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| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
| Religion |
Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | Peteharpochrates, son of Esyris. May |
2 | | one djepet-jar of wine be given |
3 | | to Eschnompmetis, the lesonis. |
4 | | We will give you [[his]] its NOTE exchange in |
5 | | the 2nd regnal year, Pachons. If we do not |
6 | | give it to you in the 2nd regnal year, Pachons, |
7 | | we shall give you 2 silver kite, Yields 1 stater, yields 2 kite again, |
8 | | for it in the 2nd regnal year, Payni |
9 | | with necessity and without delay. Issued by |
10 | | Psenchonsis, (son) of Esonnophris, in the 2nd regnal year, |
11 | | 7th of Hathyr, of Pharaoh |
12 | | Ptolemaios LHP |
13 | | Countersigned by Espmetis, son of Chnoumemes.
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios I Soter |
02 |
Hathyr |
07 |
-303 January 7 BCE |
internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
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Literature
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Erichsen, Wolja, Ein demotischer Brief über eine Weinlieferung (1957). (51-56)
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Lüddeckens, Erich, Papyri, Demotische, Berlin (1982). (no. F27)
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Martin, Cary J., The Demotic Texts (1996). (298-299 no. C 5)
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Porten, Bezalel, The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change (1996). (C5)
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Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). (no. 38)
| DatasetID |
100292 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
46483 |
| Author |
Jan Moje |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 100292 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13568), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
