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Pap. Berlin P. 15699

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 15699
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, dark
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 122 mm | 52 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper (recto) resp. lower (verso) part is broken off in undetermined extent. Two small and rectangular holes in the sheet.
Mounting framed under glass

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto) and perpendicular (verso)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Lower part (recto) resp. upper part (verso) broken off in undetermined extent. Some holes with minor text damage.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Flüchtige, nicht immer deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line Recto: The text covers nearly the entire sheet, without lateral margins, with a small upper margin. Verso: The text covers nearly the entire sheet, without lateral margins, with a small lower margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9+y x+9
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 45 45
Column Height (in mm) 110 x+105
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 45 x 110+y 45 x x+105

 

Text Content

Modern Title fragmentary letter concerning prosecutions and jar transport
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Fragmentary letter concerning the prosecution of a person as well as the transport of six jars with tgm oil.
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_15699_R-Handphoto
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P_15699_V-Handphoto
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P_15699_R_001
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P_15699_V_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
1600 man Potemetous, son of Psintaes PꜢ-wḏꜢ-mtw=s sꜢ PꜢ-šr-(n-)tꜢ-ỉḥ.t pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty 18(?) Choiak 20 -332 BCE -30 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

P_15699_R-Handphoto
Reserved Copyright
P_15699_V-Handphoto
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P_15699_R_001
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P_15699_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100331
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46539
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100331 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15699), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.