Pap. Berlin P. 13566

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13566
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	registered as existing during revision (1958)
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

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 (excavation director) 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 1907
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, dark
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	338 mm \| 61 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	On the upper and lower right parts a nearly rectangular hole each. In the upper third some minor holes.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	Palimpsest. Traces of an anterior text in Demotic visible on recto and verso each.

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)	Loss of the beginning of the first two lines on the recto. Some holes with minor text losses. First line of verso damaged.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Flüchtige, aber relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire sheet, without lateral and upper margins. At the bottom a small part remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	28	2
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	55	25+y
Column Height (in mm)	315	35
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	55 x 315	25+y x 35

Text Content

Modern Title	letter concerning a request to delegate a person to Alexandria
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Chnoummachis, son of Espmetsepsis
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Letter of Chnoummachis, son of Espmetsepsis, to Eschnompmetis, focusing on a meeting of the sender with the chief of the Southern Land concerning offerings for Chnoum because of lack of emmer. Request to delegate the pastophor to Alexandria, to deliver the stick bouquet ("Stabstrauß") of the chief of Thebes and the Chnoum priest to the king on the occasion of the annual victory celebration of the battle of Raphia.
Location of Composition	Apollonopolis Parva (Qus) /Dio- kletianou polis Upper Egypt, 11th nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	ḫrw H̱nm-m-ꜣḫ.t sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mtr-šps
2	m-bꜣḥ wṯs-Rꜥ Ns-H̱nm-pꜣ-mtr
3	pꜣ ḥm-nṯr Ḥꜥpı͗ ı͗ ḏı͗ Pꜣ-Rꜥ
4	q(y) pꜣy=f ꜥḥꜥ pḥ=y r pꜣ tš
5	Snı͗͗ ¹For transcription and translations cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 53. ꜥḥꜥ=y ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr
6	pa Tꜣ-št-rsy (r-)dbꜣ
7	pꜣ fy m-bꜣḥ H̱nm
8	ḏd=y s ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr=f (r-)dbꜣ
9	bd.t sp-2 ḏd=f n=y ı͗w=y r ḏı͗.t
10	pḥ pꜣ ḥry N.t r pꜣ mḥṱ
11	⸢ı͗w⸣=y sṯꜣ.ṱ=(y) ı͗w=y r ḏı͗.t ḏi=w
12	n=k bd.t sp-2 ḫꜣꜥ pꜣy=k
13	rd dy bn-ı͗w=y
14	ḏı͗.t šrf md(.t) pꜣ fy
15	m-bꜣḥ H̱nm ı͗r=y wryr ²According to Vleeming, DBL in A. D. 2007 – 2009 (2010). Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993): ḥryr. Siehe aber noch Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 53.
16	ḏd šꜥ.tw=y gm
17	nꜣy=f mšꜥ pšn=k
18	n md(.t) nb(.t) nty ı͗.ı͗r-n=k
19	my ı͗w pꜣ ı͗ry-ꜥꜣ
20	nty-ı͗w=f r ṯꜣy pꜣ ꜥnḫ
21	pꜣ ḥry N.t n ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 1 ı͗rm nꜣy=f rmṯ.w
22	ı͗rm pꜣ ꜥnḫ pꜣ
23	ḥm-nṯr H̱nm ı͗rm nꜣy=f rmṯ.w ı͗rm
24	nꜣ rmṯ.w-ꜥy.w my ı͗n=w
25	nꜣ hb(.w) nꜣ sẖ.w-tš
26	hb n=y (n) nꜣ md.w(t) nty ḫpr
27	ı͗.ı͗r-n=k n-ḏr.t H̱nm-m-ꜣḫ.t
28	n ḥsb.t 6 ı͗bd 4 pr.t sw 25

¹ For transcription and translations cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 53.
² According to Vleeming, DBL in A. D. 2007 – 2009 (2010). Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993): ḥryr. Siehe aber noch Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 53.

vso 1	ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr Ns-H̱nm-pꜣ-mtr
vso 2	pꜣ ḥm-nṯr Ḥpı͗

1	[Voice of Chnoummachis], son of Espmetsepsis,
2	[before the carrier-of-Ra] Eschnompmetis,
3	the priest of Hapi. Oh may Pre cause
4	his lifetime to be long! I have reached the nome
5	of Esna. I have visited
6	the chief of the [Southern Land] concerning
7	the offering income before Chnoum.
8	I have spoken in front of him concerning
9	emmer as emmer. He has said to me: ‘I will cause
10	the chief of Thebes to come to the north.
11	When I come back, I will cause to be given
12	to you emmer as emmer. Let your
13	agent stay here! I will not allow
14	that something goes wrong with the offering income
15	before Chnoum.’ I have hesitated,
16	saying ¹Cf. also Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 53: “so that I might find”. (to me?) : Until I have determined
17	his activities, take care
18	of all matters being with you!
19	Let the Pastophor arrive,
20	who shall take [the] wreath
21	of the chief of Thebes `at the 1st of Pachons´ and (the wreath) of his staff,
22	and the wreath of the
23	priest of Chnoum and (the wreath) of his staff and
24	(the wreath) of the Great! They may deliver
25	the dispatches of the nome scribes!
26	Send to me (concerning) the matters happened
27	to you! Issued by Chnoummachis
28	in the 6th regnal year, 25th of Pharmuti.
vso 1	[To] Eschnompmetis,
vso 2	the priest of Hapi.

¹ Cf. also Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 53: “so that I might find”.

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Places (read out from edition)

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
720	man	Chnoummachis, son of Espmetsepsis	H̱nm-m-Ꜣḫ.t sꜢ Ns-pꜢ-mtr-šps	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios IV Philopator	06	Pharmuthi	25	-216 June 3 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

DatasetID	100422
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46447
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100422 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13566), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.