Pap. Berlin P. 15629

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 15629
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: low
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	(unknown) Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	(unknown) Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	unknown
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	(unknown)
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(unknown) Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, light
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	126 mm \| 86 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Several, partly larger, holes in the upper section of the preserved part. Small horizontal and vertical breaks.
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)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Some holes with text losses.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Auffallend kleine, flüchtige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Very wide line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire preserved sheet, with medium right and broad lower margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+11	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	70	0
Column Height (in mm)	110	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	70 x x+110	0

Text Content

Modern Title	letter with a report on executed orders and a requirement of money
Ancient Archives	private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [lost])
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Letter with a report on executed orders of the addressee, and with a requirement of an amount of money of six kite.
Location of Composition	Thebes-East Upper Egypt, 4th nome Egypt (Certainty: low)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

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x+1	ı͗w r pꜣ-hrw tw=y ¹Reading variant šꜥ.tw „bis“ (Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993)) is doubted by M. Smith, Enchoria 24, 1997/98, 204 cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 54.
x+2	wꜣḥ=y ı͗r sp nꜣ he(?) bw-ı͗r-tw rmṯ
x+3	mtw nꜣ.w-ꜥn=f ı͗w=k ı͗r ²According to Vleeming, DBL in A. D. 2007 (2008). Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993): mr „belieben“.
x+4	ḏı͗.t ı͗n=w n=y qd.t 6 šꜥ-tw=w šms(?) n=y
x+5	n pꜣy=y ꜥ.wy bn-ı͗w I͗mn pꜣ nṯr ꜥꜣ ḏı͗.t ı͗r
x+6	pꜣ ḥm-nṯr (n) Wsı͗r ³According to Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993) it is not clear if ḥm nṯr Wsı͗r is a title or a name. Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae gives the reading as a title, as it is given here, too. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 54, however, prefer a personal name.^ ks ı͗w=f ḫpr ı͗w n=y rmṯ dy
x+7	ı͗w=w ı͗n.ṱ=w ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr pꜣ ḥm-nṯr (n) Wsı͗r gr ı͗w=y
x+8	šm r rsy ı͗w=y (r) ḏı͗.t ṯꜣy=w s r pꜣy=k mꜣꜥ
x+9	ı͗w bn-pw md(.t) ꜥq n-ḏr.t pꜣ ḥm-nṯr (n) Wsı͗r
x+10	(r-)dbꜣ.ṱ=s pꜣ ꜥš-sḥn nfr st ı͗r-rḫ s sẖ n ḥsb.t 13 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 7

¹ Reading variant šꜥ.tw „bis“ (Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993)) is doubted by M. Smith, Enchoria 24, 1997/98, 204 cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 54.
² According to Vleeming, DBL in A. D. 2007 (2008). Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993): mr „belieben“.
³ According to Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993) it is not clear if ḥm nṯr Wsı͗r is a title or a name. Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae gives the reading as a title, as it is given here, too. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 54, however, prefer a personal name.

x+1	[///] came [till?] now. I [///]
x+2	have made the remaining costs(?). Not yet has any man
x+3	[///]. It would be nice if you
x+4	cause 6 (silver) kite to be brought to me, until one will serve(?) me
x+5	within my house. Amun, the great god, will not allow
x+6	that the priest of Osiris will be worried(?). If people are coming to me here
x+7	who will be brought before the priest of Osiris, or if I (myself)
x+8	travel to the south, I will bring them to your place,
x+9	without anything having perished at the hand of the priest of Osiris.
x+10	One knows the excellent instruction. ¹For the translation cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 54. Written in the 13th regnal year, 7th of Epeiph.

¹ For the translation cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 54.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8060	not applicable	(No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text)	(No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text)	(none)

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early)	14	Epeiph	07	-332 BCE -222 BCE	;

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Literature

DatasetID	100316
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46460
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100316 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15629), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.