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Pap. Berlin P. 15627

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 15627
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, dark
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 366 mm | 77 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The left edge is damaged, some holes in the sheet. In the upper third a vertical continous hole
Mounting framed under glass
Comments on Object Palimpsest. On recto and verso traces of an anterior text.

Text Basic Information

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) Most of the line endings damaged. Heavy damge in lines 7-9.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Flüchtige, unausgeglichene mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire sheet, with small upper and lower margins, as well as a very small, inequal right margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 30 1
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 70 0
Column Height (in mm) 355 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 70 x 355 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title report on a complaint
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Report of Pseniah, son of Pachnoumis, to Eschnompmetis, concerning the complaint against a man whose cows had grazed unauthorized on his fields.
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_15627_R-vorlaeufig
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P_15627_V-vorlaeufig
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
9620 man Eschnoumpmetis (P. 15627) Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mtr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty Choiak 05 -332 BCE -30 BCE Dating by palaeography. ;

 

Pictures

P_15627_R-vorlaeufig
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P_15627_V-vorlaeufig
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Literature

 

DatasetID 100366
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46525
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100366 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15627), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.