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Pap. Berlin P. 15526

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 15526
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) 357 mm | 82 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Rectangular damage at the upper right section. Rims slightly frayed. Several small horizontal breaks in the sheet.
Mounting framed under glass
Comments on Object Palimpsest. On the recto as well as on the verso traces of an anterior text.

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) Beginning of line 2-3 lost. Faded at the end of the verso.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Flüchtige, nicht immer deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire sheet, without lateral margins, but with small upper and lower margins. Verso: The text covers nearly the entire sheet, without lateral margins, but with a broad free space between text and address line, filled with an oblique stroke.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 29 26+1
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 80 80
Column Height (in mm) 335 300
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 80 x 335 80 x 300

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter concerning the distribution of wheat
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter of Chnemeus to Teos reporting the distribution of wheat.
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_15526_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_15526_V_001
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
11040 man Teos (P. 15526) Ḏd-Ḥr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) -332 BCE -222 BCE Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

P_15526_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_15526_V_001
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100407
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46829
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100407 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15526), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.