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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15624 |
Current Location | magazine |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication assigned |
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 / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) 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 1908 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
Object Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 70 mm | 175 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The lower part and the right part are broken off in undetermined extent. Some minor holes in the sheet. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Restoration Activities | Restaurierung abgeschlossen |
Comments on Object | Palimpsest. On the recto and the verso traces of an anterior text. The verso was not used for the new text. According to the inventory "Abschrift und Deutung von W. Erichsen" existing. |
Localization of Text on Object | recto | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (recto) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Right and lower part broken off in undetermined extent. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift. Kol. 1 wohl von anderer Hand als Kol. 2." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Narrow line pitch. Left colum right-aligned, with very broad upper marign. Left half of preserved sheet remains uninscribed. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 3+y ; 6+y | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 2 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 115 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 55 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 115 x 55 | 0 |
Modern Title | account about bread, oil, and grain |
Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Fragment of an account about baked bread, tgm-oil and grain (wheat?). |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Late period - Early Ptolemaic dynasty | -664 BCE -222 BCE | Internal dating, without name of the ruler. Dating by palaeography.; |
DatasetID | 100312 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 45703 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100312 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15624), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |