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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 | |
Text Types |
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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) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
595 | man | Argytmus | Ꜣrgytmws | (not identified) | ||
455 | man | Parates (P. 13569) | Pa-rṱ | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
2715 | man | Ptaus, son of Thotirdis | PꜢ-ḏw sꜢ Ḏḥwtỉ-ỉ.ỉr-ḏỉ-s | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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.; |
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. |