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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15621 |
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) | 92 mm | 338 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The upper part is broken off in small extent. Several horizontal holes in the sheet. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Restoration Activities | Restaurierung abgeschlossen |
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) | Recto: On top only few lines broken off, some holes with text damages. Verso: Last lines faded. | |
Script, Primary | Early to Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Geübte, flüssige, relativ deutliche früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Narrow line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire sheet, without lateral margins, but a small lower margin. Script on recto parallel to fibres, unusual for horizontal format letters. Verso: The text was placed onto the upper part of the sheet. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | x+7 | 7 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 335 | 335 |
Column Height (in mm) | 75 | 75 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 335 x x+75 | 335 x 75 |
Modern Title | letter concerning cloth(?) and a shipwreck |
Ancient Archives | private archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter concerning cloth or something similar. Report of a shipwreck suffered by the sender. He has not reported this earlier to the addressee in order not to sadden him. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Late period - Early Ptolemaic dynasty | -664 BCE -222 BCE | Internal dating, without name of the ruler. Dating by palaeography.; |
DatasetID | 100364 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46523 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100364 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15621), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |