Pap. Berlin P. 15522

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Metadata

Collection

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

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, 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).

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)	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

Text Content

Modern Title	payment request concerning taxes
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Esminis ( P. 15522)
Text Types	documentary \| account
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

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr Ns-H̱nm-(pꜣ-)mtr
2	pꜣ mr-šn hb=w n=y
3	ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr pꜣ ḥry N.t ḏd
4	my ı͗r=w wp.t n nꜣ bd.t
5	pꜣ tš Tꜣ-št-rsy
6	r nꜣ wḏꜣ.w ¹Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): rꜣ.w. r ẖ pꜣ ı͗w(-n)-ẖe
7	r.ı͗n=w n ḥsb.t 5
8	šꜥ.tw=w rḫ pꜣ nty ı͗w=w
9	r-ı͗n.ṱ=f ḥw mtw=w
10	šdı͗=w r sw 21 ²Different reading Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C12: ⸢ꜥn⸣ „again“. my
11	ı͗r=w wp.t n nꜣ bd.t
12	n pꜣ ḥtp-nṯr H̱nm r ẖ
13	pꜣ nty sẖ ḥry nꜣ bd.t
14	r.ḏı͗ n pꜣ ḥtp-nṯr
15	n H̱nm r pr-ꜥꜣ n ḥsb.t 5
16	my ṯꜣy=w s r-rꜣ(-n) ³Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 51. Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): r ẖn.
17	pꜣ wḏꜣ ⁴Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): rꜣ. pr-ꜥꜣ
18	šꜥ.tw pꜣ ḥry N.t pḥ
19	mtw=w wꜣḥ sḥn ẖr-r.r=w
20	m-ı͗r wrr wꜥ.t wnw.t
21	r wn bd.t n pꜣ ḥyr
22	sẖ Ns-Mn n ḥsb.t
23	6 ı͗bd 2 pr.t sw 19

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.

vso 1

ı͗.ı͗r ḥr Ns-H̱nm-(pꜣ-)mtr

1	To Eschnoum(p)metis,
2	the lesonis. [_] It was sent to me
3	on behalf of ¹Cf. 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. the chief of Thebes the following:
4	‘Let them gather the emmer
5	of the district ²Cf. Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C8, for „district“ contra „nome“.of the Southern Land
6	into the granaries, according to the receipt
7	of measuring which was brought in the 5th regnal year,
8	until they know what
9	they have to deliver additionally . ³Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): „bringen soll.“ And they should
10	collect (the emmer) until the 21st day of the month .’ Let them
11	gather the emmer
12	of the temple-domain NOTE according to
13	that which is written above. The (same amount of) emmer
14	which has delivered the temple-domain
15	of Chnoum for Pharaoh in the 5th regnal year:
16	Let it be brought
17	into the granary of Pharaoh
18	until the chief of Thebes arrives.
19	And let this be ordered (officially)!
20	Do not delay for one (single) hour
21	while emmer is lying on the street!
22	Written by Esminis in the 6th regnal year,
23	19th of Mecheir.
vso 1	To [_] Eschnom(p)metis.

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)

Tꜣ-št-rsy (places.xml#r41)

People mentioned in Text

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

Dates

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;

Pictures

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Literature

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.