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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. |