Pap. Berlin P. 13535

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13535
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	joining: Pap. Berlin P. 13535 + Pap. Berlin P. 23677 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
Date of Discovery Term. Ante / Post Quem Non	between 12 2 1906 and 12 2 1906
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, dark
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	177 mm \| 222 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	The bottom is broken off. This end of the sheet with two lines of the second copy should belong to that copy and there fore cut off directly after the end of the first text. Horizontal breaks along the foldings.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	On the right side a vertical sheet join (kollesis) (1 cm). A protecting strip is glued on at the right side. The "scharfe Schnitt bis zur Hälfte der Blattkante" mentioned in P. Eleph. Dem. 1, no. 11 does not exist.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	perpendicular (recto)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Lower part broken off in undetermined extent. In the lower left corner Pap. Berlin P.23677 joining.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. The right-aligned text holds small but equal margins on top and at the right side. Some lines end close to the left edge. Second version beginns after a small gap below the first version. Originally three version may be expected.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	13, 1+y	0
Quantity of Columns	1, 1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	210	0
Column Height (in mm)	130	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	210 x 130	0

Text Content

Modern Title	obligation concerning collection of taxes
Ancient Archives	tax collector NN \| correspondence archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Parates, son of Payris
Text Types	documentary \| contract \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Contract as royal oath. Obligation of three persons concerning the collective collection of different taxes. Double contract with first copy and two lines of the beginning of the second copy.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

1st copy	1st copy
1	Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t sꜣ Pꜣ-wp.ṱ Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-mꜣꜥ Pa-rṱ sꜣ Pa-ḥr r s 3 nꜣ nty ḏd n wꜥ rꜣ ¹Lit.: „with one mouth“.
2	tw=n ı͗r ꜥnḫ m-bꜣḥ pr-ꜥꜣ Ptrwmys sꜣ Ptrwmys ı͗rm ꜣrsn
3	tꜣ mr sn ²The real mother of Ptolemaios III. was Arsinoe I., not Arsinoe II. Philadelpha. But due to the banishment of the first, Ptolemaios III. used to name Arsinoe II. as his mother. ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr(.w) nꜣy=f sn.w ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr.w mnḫ.w ı͗rm tꜣ pr-ꜥꜣ.t ³For this title cf. also Moje, Herrscherfrauen (2013), with further literature. ꜣbrnge tꜣy=f sn.t tꜣy=f ḥm.t
4	ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr.w nꜣy=f sn.w nꜣ nṯr.w mnḫ.w ı͗rm ꜣs.t ı͗rm Wsı͗r ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr.w Kmy ḏr=w
5	ı͗w=n (r) šd nꜣ ḥḏ.w ḥmꜣ nꜣ ḥḏ.w ı͗n.nw ⁴Hitherto read incorrectly as ı͗n-šn (Erichsen, Demotisches Glossar (1954), 34). Alongside Brautschleier “bridat veil” it can (better) be read as Wolle “wool”, cf. Demotische Wortliste online, s. v. ı͗n-šn. n tꜣ sḫ.t Yb n pꜣ ḥtr n ḥsb.t 11
6	n pꜣ s 3 r-ẖ pꜣ nty ı͗w=w (r) ı͗p ı͗rm=n n nꜣ ꜥ.wy.w (n) sẖ n pr-ꜥꜣ ı͗w bn-pw rmṯ ḏd mḏ(.t) ꜥḏ
7	(n) pꜣy=f ı͗ry n.ı͗m=n n pꜣ s 3 mtw=w wṱ=w r nꜣ sḫn.w n pr-ꜥꜣ šꜥ-tw=n mḥ.ṱ=w
8	mtw=n ı͗r pꜣ hy pꜣ ꜣs wṱ=n ⁵Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52.n pꜣ s 3 pꜣ nkt nty ı͗w=f (r) ḫpr n ḥw mtw=n
9	pš=f r-ḥr=n n pꜣ s 3 ı͗w mn mḏ(.t) ꜥḏ (n) pꜣ ꜥnḫ mtw=n sẖ nꜣ ḥḏ.w nty ı͗w=w (r) ı͗r ı͗w
10	r-ḏr.t.ṱ=n n pꜣ s 3 ı͗rm n pꜣ he nty ı͗w=f (r) ḫpr n.ı͗m=w r pꜣ ḏmꜥ mtw=n ḏbꜥ=f pꜣ nty ı͗w=f sṯꜣ.ṱ=f r ı͗r r-ẖ mḏ(t.) nb nty ḥry ı͗w=f (r) ḏı͗.t ḥḏ (dbn) 5
11	(n) pꜣy=f ı͗ry n.ı͗m=n n-ḏr.t Pa-rṱ sꜣ Pa-ḥr r ḫrw=w n pꜣ s 3 n ḥsb.t 11 ı͗bd 2 šmw n pr-ꜥꜣ n Ptrwmys ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb
12	sꜣ Ptrwmys ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb sẖ Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-mꜣꜥ r ı͗r r-ẖ mḏ(.t) nb nty ḥry
13	n nꜣ ssw ⁶Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 25. nty ḥry sẖ Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t ⁷In line 1 and 14 the name of this person is given as Harpaesis. sꜣ Pꜣ-wp.ṱ ḏd ı͗w=y (r) ı͗r r-ẖ mḏ(.t) nb nty sẖ ḥry n nꜣ ssw.w nty ḥry
2nd copy	2nd copy
14	Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t sꜣ Pꜣ-wp.ṱ Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-mꜣꜥ Pa-rṱ sꜣ Pa-ḥr r s 3 nꜣ nty ḏd (n) wꜥ rꜣ tw=n

¹ Lit.: „with one mouth“.
² The real mother of Ptolemaios III. was Arsinoe I., not Arsinoe II. Philadelpha. But due to the banishment of the first, Ptolemaios III. used to name Arsinoe II. as his mother.
³ For this title cf. also Moje, Herrscherfrauen (2013), with further literature.
⁴ Hitherto read incorrectly as ı͗n-šn (Erichsen, Demotisches Glossar (1954), 34). Alongside Brautschleier “bridat veil” it can (better) be read as Wolle “wool”, cf. Demotische Wortliste online, s. v. ı͗n-šn.
⁵ Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52.
⁶ Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 25.
⁷ In line 1 and 14 the name of this person is given as Harpaesis.

1	Harpaesis, son of Pouoptis, Espmetis, son of Thotomous, (and) Parates, son of Payris – yields 3 people – are the one who say unanimously:
2	We take an oath before Pharaoh Ptolemaios (III.), son of Ptolemaios (II.) and Arsinoë (II.)
3	Philadelpha, {and} the gods Adelphoi, and the gods Euergetai, {and} the Female Pharaoh Berenike (II.), his sister, his wife
4	{and the gods Adelphoi, the gods Euergetai} and Isis and Osiris and all the gods of Egypt.
5	We will collect the amounts of money of the salt tax and the amounts of money of the wool tax of the district of Elephantine, for the tax of the 11th regnal year,
6	the 3 people in accordance with that which will be accounted for us in the houses of writing of Pharaoh, without any men saying something wrong
7	to his companion among us, the 3 people. And they shall be paid to the banks of Pharaoh until we have paid them in full.
8	And we will bear the allowance and the loss between us, the 3 people. That which shall arise as profit, we will
9	divide it among us, the 3 people, so that there is no falsehood n the oath. And we will write the money which shall be paid
10	to us, the 3 people, `and´ the expense which shall arise therein, `in a papyrus roll and we will seal it´. The one who will withdraw from it according with everything mentioned above, he should pay 5 silver (deben)
11	(to) his companion among us. Issued by Parates, son of Payris, on declaration of the three men, in the 11th regnal year, Payni of Pharaoh Ptolemaios (III.) LPH,
12	son of Ptolemaios (II.) LPH. [_] Countersigned by Espmetis, son of Thotomous, to act in accordance with everything mentioned above,
13	in the times mentioned above. [_] Countersigned by Harsiesis, son of Pouoptis: I will act in accordance with everything written above, in the times mentioned above.
14	Harpaesis, son of Pouoptis, Espmetis, son of Thotomous, (and) Parates, son of Payris – yields 3 people – are the one who say unanimously: ⸢We⸣ [///]

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Places (read out from edition)

tꜣ sḫ.t Yb (places.xml#r24)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
900	man	Espmetis, son of Thotomous	Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ Ḏḥwtỉ-mꜢꜤ	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	11	Payni		-236 July 18 BCE -236 August 16 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

den Brinker, Anna Adriana & Muhs, Brian & Vleeming, Sven P., A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents (2005). (13, 51 - 52, 203 (P. 13535))
Lüddeckens, Erich, Papyri, Demotische, Berlin (1982). (no. E9d (P. 13535))
Martin, Cary J., The Demotic Texts (1996). (363-365 no. C 32 (P. 13535))
Porten, Bezalel, The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change (1996). (C32)
Seidl, Erwin, Die Quittung in den demotischen Texten (1975). (720 (P. 13535))
Spiegelberg, Wilhelm, Demotische Papyrus von der Insel Elephantine I, Nr. 1 - 13 (1908). (no. 11 (P. 13535))
Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). (no. 9 and 304 )
Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Papyri von der Insel Elephantine 2 (1993). (no. 13535 & 23677 )

DatasetID	100297
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	44287
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100297 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13535), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.