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Pap. Berlin P. 15815

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 15815
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory joining: Pap. Berlin P. 15815 + Pap. Berlin P. 23680
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
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non
between 19 12 1906 and 19 12 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 1906
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 148 mm | 47 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Some horizontal 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) Upper part broken off in undetermined extent. Here Pap. Berlin P. 23680 can be placed, not directly joining
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 Medium line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper half of the (preserved) sheet, without lateral margins. text space P.15815: 45 x x+35 mm text space P.23680: 45 x x+85+y mm
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+4+y+8 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 45 0
Column Height (in mm) 3585 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 45 x x+35+y+85 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter of unclear content
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter of Sirthotes, son of Harnouphis. Content unclear due to the fragmentary condition.
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_15815_R-Handphoto
Reserved Copyright
P_15815_V-Handphoto
Reserved Copyright
P_15815_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_15815_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
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 03 Choiak 27 -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_15815_R-Handphoto
Reserved Copyright
P_15815_V-Handphoto
Reserved Copyright
P_15815_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_15815_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100318
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46559
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100318 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15815), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.