Pap. Berlin P. 13569

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13569
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	registered as existing during revision (1958)
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details	house of Pa-di-Harpokrates, the adressee of the letter (suggestion Erichsen)
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, light
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	343 mm \| 109 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Several larger holes in the upper right half. Minor holes along the horizontal and vertical foldings.
Mounting	framed under glass

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)	Line beginnings on the upper part damaged, otherwise only minor text losses.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	Written by two different hands. Z. 1-19: "Sehr sorgfältige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." Z. 20-24: "Flüchtige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (Alles According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire sheet, with a small and equal right margin. Length of lines differing. On top a broad margin, without lower margin. On the verso two faded lines with probably the address only, placed onto the upper third of the otherwise uniscribed sheet.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	24	2
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	105
Column Height (in mm)	295
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	105 x 295	(?)

Modern Title	Letter concerning erroneous booking of 40 artabas of wheat from the syntaxis
Ancient Archives	administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Parates (P.13569) Pouoptis(?), son of Petearensnouphis
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| vertical format
Summary of Content	(l. 1-19) Letter of Pouoptis(?), son of Petearensnouphis, to Parates, concerning erroneous booking of 40 artabas of wheat from the syntaxis. (l.20 - 24) Additional note of the addressee Parates to Ptaus, son of Thotirdis concerning the same case.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios IV Philopator	15	Pachons	12	-207 June 18 BCE	Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

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DatasetID	100424
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46484
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100424 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13569), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.