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Pap. Berlin P. 15773

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 15773
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) 81 mm | 69 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation At all four sides broken off in undetermined extent.
Mounting framed under glass

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (verso) and perpendicular (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) All sides broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Relativ deutliche früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. Recto/ Verso: The text covers the entire preserved sheet
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+7+y x+7+y
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 65 x+65+x
Column Height (in mm) 75 x+70+x
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+65+x x x+75+x x+65+x x x+70+x

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter concerning affairs of the priests from Elephantine
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | horizontal format
Summary of Content Letter concerning affairs of the priests from Elephantine.
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_15773_R-Handphoto
Reserved Copyright
P_15773_V-Handphoto
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
85 man priests of Chnoum of Elephantine prỈests of Chnum of ElephantỈne pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period or Early Ptolemaic period -664 BCE -222 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_15773_R-Handphoto
Reserved Copyright
P_15773_V-Handphoto
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100373
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46548
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100373 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15773), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.