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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	Sirthotes, son of Harnouphis
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

 

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	;

 

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Literature

• Lüddeckens, Erich, Papyri, Demotische, Berlin (1982). (no. F122)
• Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). (no. 176 (p. 15815))

 

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.