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Pap. Berlin P. 15696

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Metadata

Collection

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

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, 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

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) 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

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter concerning 50 artabas emmer and other things
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_15696_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_15696_V
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
10325 man Sirthotes (P.15696) Sr-Ḏḥwtỉ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty 02 Epeiph 08 -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_15696_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_15696_V
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

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.