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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 13571 |
Current Location | magazine |
Comments on Inventory | registered as existing during revision (1958) |
Publication Permission Status | (unknown) |
Publication Status | published |
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 Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, dark |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 180 mm | 445 mm | mm |
Rotation | around vertical axis (side to side) |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The lower part is lost in undetermined extent. Some minor breaks along the foldings. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Comments on Object | Currently the verso is completely covered except for the column. On the right side a vertical continuous sheet join (kollesis). |
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) | At the bottom the text is broken off in undetermined extent. Minor holes along the foldings with marginal text losses. | |
Script, Primary | Early Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Early Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Relativ deutliche frühdemotische Urkundenschrift, vier eigenhändige Zeugenunterschriften auf dem Verso." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) Spiegelberg: Similar handwriting in Pap. P. Louvre E 706 from the 4th regnal year of Psametik II. (Malinine, M. / Pirenne, J., Documents juridiques egyptiens (Deuxième série), in: AHDO 5 (1950-1951), 73-74 no. 39) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Narrow line pitch. Recto: The right- and left-aligned text shows very broad upper and right margins and a smaller left one. Verso: The block with the witness signature was placed onto the left section of the right half of the sheet. . | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 8+y | 4 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 305 | 70 |
Column Height (in mm) | 120 | 50 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 305 x 120 | 70 x 50 |
Modern Title | Sale contract regarding a red pregnant plowing cow |
Ancient Archives | private archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Sale contract between Peteminis, son of Peteharpokrates and his mother Esharpokrates, and Harmais, son of Peteasychis and his Mutter Tahi, regarding the sale of a red pregnant plowing cow. On Verso four autographic witness signatures. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Comments on Text | The provenance of the composition is not fully clear. Erichsen in FS Crum pleads for Elephantine, Zauzich in MDAIK 25 (1969), 228 for Edfou, Zauzich in VOHD 1971 for "Elephantine(?)" with the note "Grabung Rubensohn 1906/07". |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
9450 | man | Esminis, son of Osoroeris | Ns-Mn sꜢ Wsỉr-wr | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Psametik II | 05 | Phaophi | -591 February 11 BCE -591 March 12 BCE | Zauzich, Cruz-Uribe.; |
DatasetID | 100423 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 45685 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100423 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13571), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |