Pap. Berlin P. 15513

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 15513
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

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 Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, light
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	289 mm \| 45 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The upper part is lost in undetermined extent. One rotund hole in the upper right part of the preserved sheet. The lower left corner is broken off.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	The papyrus is still mounted on paper (05/2016).

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.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"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 two-thirds of the sheet, without lateral margins. The lower one-third remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+17	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	40	0
Column Height (in mm)	190	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	40 x x+190	0

Modern Title	letter regarding a delivery and wood
Ancient Archives	private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [lost])
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| vertical format religious \| polytheistic Egyptian \| oracular inquiry
Summary of Content	Letter concerning a delivery and wood in unmentioned context. Short notice of a accident of the sender during a voyage.
Location of Composition	Philae Lower Nubia / Wawat Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Transcription

Translation

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x+0	ı͗n=w n=y?
x+1	pꜣ(y) ṯk sḏm=y md n
x+2	(r-)dbꜣ
x+3	nw=y r.r =f
x+4	ı͗r=f ḏı͗ =y
x+5	ı͗n=w s ḏı͗=y (n)
x+6	yꜥb(y.t) ꜥꜣ.t
x+7	m-šs (n-)ḏr.t wꜥ
x+8	sḫe ḫpr=f
x+9	n.ı͗m=y ẖn
x+10	pꜣ hre pꜣ hrw (n)
x+11	ı͗y ı͗:ı͗r=y r-ẖry
x+12	pꜣ ḫt ¹Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 54.
x+13	r.hb=k n=y (r-)dbꜣ.ṱ
x+14	=f ı͗w=y (r) ı͗r pꜣy
x+15	=w rwš ꜥn
x+16	n-ḏr.t (n) ḥsb.t 5.t ı͗bd 4
x+17	ꜣḫ.t sw 2

¹ Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 54.

x+0	[It was brought to me]
x+1	this letter. [I have heard all words]
x+2	about [///]
x+3	I have seen him.
x+4	He has made … I have caused
x+5	him to be brought. I am
x+6	heavily ill ¹Lit."I am in a very huge illness ".
x+7	as a consequence of a
x+8	beating (wound/ stroke?). It happened
x+9	to me on
x+10	a boat on the day
x+11	when I descended.
x+12	The wood
x+13	concerning which you have sent to me:
x+14	I will take
x+15	care of it again.
x+16	Issued (in) the 5th regnal year,
x+17	2nd of Choiak.

¹ Lit."I am in a very huge illness ".

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
3560	(unknown)	(Unknown [lost])	(Unknown [lost])	(none)

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early)	05	Choiak	02	-332 BCE -222 BCE	Dating by palaeography;

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DatasetID	100352
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46453
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100352 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15513), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.