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Pap. Berlin P. 15807

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 15807
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory registered as existing during revision (1967)
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) 160 mm | 130 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The right part is broken off in undetermined extent.. Several minor holes in the inscribed surface, one larger in the empty space.
Mounting restorer workshop

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) All line beginnings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Geübte, relativ deutliche früh- bis mitteldemoticshe GEschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 11 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 75 0
Column Height (in mm) 120 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+75 x 120 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter with the request to take care about something
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | horizontal format
Summary of Content Fragmentary letter with the request to take care about a thing or a person.
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_15807_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_15807_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

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_15807_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_15807_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100376
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46554
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100376 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15807), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.