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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15522 |
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) | 361 mm | 46 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Minor damages at the lateral edges, one small hole in the sheet. |
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) | complete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Some minor dmaages at line beginnings or endings. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Geübte und deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the sheet, without lateral margins, but with very broad upper and lower margins. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 23 | 1 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 43 | 40 |
Column Height (in mm) | 310 | 10 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 43 x 310 | 40 x 10 |
Modern Title | payment request concerning taxes |
Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Payment request of the office of the chief of Thebes to the domain of the Chnoum temple respectively the lesonis Eschnompmetis about the immediate payment of taxes in emmer currency. |
Location of Composition | Thebes Upper Egypt, 4th nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): rꜣ.w. 2 Different reading Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C12: ⸢ꜥn⸣ „again“. 3 Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 51. Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): r ẖn. 4 Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): rꜣ.
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1 Cf. Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993), note to l. 2 of P. 13536: ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr cannot be translated here as „t“, but must introdice the sender or principal of the letter in question. 2 Cf. Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C8, for „district“ contra „nome“. 3 Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): „bringen soll.“ |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
9890 | man | Eschnoumpmetis, son of Snebonychos (carrier of Ra, Vorsteher der heiligen Binden) alle zusammenfügen. cf. 8066, wohl nicht derselbe! | Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mtr sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-nb-ꜥnḫ | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios IV Philopator | 06 | Mecheir | 21 | -216 March 31 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 100356 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46504 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100356 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15522), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |