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Pap. Berlin P. 15523

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 15523
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, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 223 mm | 135 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Several holes in the sheet, repetitive damages at the left edge.
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) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The upper part broken off in undetermined extent. Some holes with minor text losses.
Script, Primary Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting Flüchtige, wenig sorgfältige und teilweise schwer lesbare früh- bis mittelptolemäische Geshcäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, without lateral margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+18 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 130 0
Column Height (in mm) 220 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 130 x x+220 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title Order of a criminal investigation concerning theft of gold
Ancient Archives administration of justice | correspondence archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Order of a criminal investigation among several priests, possibly in context with theft of gold.
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_15523_R-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) 04 Phaophi 27 -332 BCE -222 BCE Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

P_15523_R-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100357
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46505
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100357 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15523), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.