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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15524 |
Current Location | magazine |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication assigned |
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) | 305 mm | 74 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Several larger holes in the sheet. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Comments on Object | Papyrus fractured after inventory. New arrangement by Zauzich in 1967, some parts of the originally preserved text detected as beeing lost. According to the inventory book 24 lines on the recto, today the topmost line is missing. |
Localization of Text on Object | verso/recto | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | On top only one lines lost. In the middle part larger holes with substantial text losses. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige, geübte mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Medium line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, without lateral margins. Verso: The text was placed centered onto the sheet, without lateral margins, but with broad upper and lower margins. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | [1]+23 | 18 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 70 | 70 |
Column Height (in mm) | 300 | 245 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 70 x x+300 | 70 x 245 |
Modern Title | Report concerning a visit, and preventing Nubians from travelling |
Ancient Archives | unclear |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Report concerning a visit at the chief-of-field. The addressee should prevent Nubians from travelling into the reigon north of Aswan. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) | Pachons | 05 | -332 BCE -222 BCE | Dating by palaeography.; |
DatasetID | 100358 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46506 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100358 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15524), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |