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Pap. Berlin P. 13541

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 13541
Current Location magazine
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) 158 mm | 61 mm | mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Only some minor cracks at the edges, a little damage on top. Horizontal breaks. In the upper section blackening from wiped out lines of an anterior text.
Mounting framed under glass
Comments on Object Palimpsest. Traces of an anterior text, presumably an account, too.

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 mitteldemotische 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 surface of the papyrus, with small lateral margins and a broader upper one.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 55 0
Column Height (in mm) 75 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 55 x 75 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title billing of a tax collector regarding received tax paying
Ancient Archives tax collector NN | correspondence archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | bill
  • documentary | list
Summary of Content List of an unnamed tax collector, mentioning persons with paid amounts of money in silver kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1nꜣ ḥḏ.w r.št=f qd
2Pꜣ-šr-ꜣs.t qd 1
3Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ-ḫl-Ḫnsw 1According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), no. C36. qd 1
4Pa-mtr sꜣ Wn-nfr qd ½
5Ns- 2Further reading variant according to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 48: Ns-sꜣ.t(?)-mr. qd ½
6Ns-Ḥr sꜣ Ns-Ḏḥwtı͗ 3According to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 48. Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): „Ns-H̱nm.“ qd 2
7r ḥḏ qd 5

1 According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), no. C36.
2 Further reading variant according to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 48: Ns-sꜣ.t(?)-mr.
3 According to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 48. Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): „Ns-H̱nm.“
R
1The amounts of money which he has collected [_] (in) kite.
2Psennesis [_] 1 kite.
3Espmetis, son of Pchorchonis: 1 kite.
4Pametis, son of Onnophris: ½ kite.
5Es..?.. [_]: ½ kite.
6Esyris, son of Esthotis: 2 kite.
7Yields 5 silver kite.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
11095 man Es..?.. Ns-..?.. pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) -332 BCE -222 BCE Dating by palaeography. ;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 100298
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 48633
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100298 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13541), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.