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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15696 |
| 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) | 167 mm | 45 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Several horizontal and vertical breaks with one large vertical hole in the sheet. |
| Mounting | framed under glass |
| 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) | Upper part (recto) resp. lower part (verso) broken off in undetermined extent. Some breaks with text damages. | |
| Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Kleine, flüchtige, teilweise undeutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Verso: 10 Z. (Fortsetzung) + 2 Z. (Adresse, 2. Zeile um 180° gedreht.) Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire sheet, with small and equal right margin. The address line on verso is rotated by 180° in respect to the rest of the text. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | x+18 | 10 x 2 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 40 | 40+y |
| Column Height (in mm) | 160 | 100 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | x+40 x 160 | 40+y x 100 |
| Modern Title | letter concerning 50 artabas emmer and other things |
| Ancient Archives | private archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Letter to Sirthotes, concerning (amongst others) 50 artabas emmer. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 10325 | man | Sirthotes (P.15696) | Sr-Ḏḥwtỉ | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic dynasty | 02 | Epeiph | 08 | -332 BCE -30 BCE | ; |
| DatasetID | 100368 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 46536 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100368 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15696), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |