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Pap. Berlin P. 15624

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Metadata

Collection

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

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 / 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

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.

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) 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

 

Text Content

Modern Title account about bread, oil, and grain
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_15624_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_15624_V
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

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.;

 

Pictures

P_15624_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_15624_V
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

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.