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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15525 |
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, dark |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 288 mm | 65 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 | Palimpsest. On the verso traces of an anterior text. |
Localization of Text on Object | recto/verso | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (recto) and perpendicular (verso) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | On top some lines lost. In the upper part substantial text losses. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige, wenig sorgfältige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire sheet, without margins. Verso: The text was placed onto the upper fourth of the sheet, with a brod upper margin. The address line was placed onto the lower part. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | x+21 | 4+1 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 60 | 55 |
Column Height (in mm) | 280 | 65 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 60 x x+280 | 55 x 65 |
Modern Title | letter presumably concerning assignments |
Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter to a priest of deities images. The sender may have inquired the lesonis of providing certain persons with an assignment. Context remains currently unclear. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Trilingual |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) | 17 | Epeiph | 20 | -332 BCE -222 BCE | Dating by palaeography.; |
DatasetID | 100359 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46507 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100359 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15525), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |