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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 13559 |
| Current Location | missing | probably wartime loss |
| 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, light |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 210 mm | 65 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | complete |
| State of Preservation | Only some minor holes. On the verso the vertical strip is detectable which was teared off for the wrapping of the entire roll. |
| Comments on Object | Palimpsest. Traces of an anterior text (so called line 19 of the recto, as well as further traces between lines 3 and 4 on the verso. |
| 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) | complete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | Marginal text losses in the area of the teared off strip. | |
| Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige, doch relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | [unknown], currently missing | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 18 | 3+1 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 60,55 | |
| Column Height (in mm) | 190,5 | |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 60 x 190 | 55 x 50 |
| Modern Title | Letter concerning leases of cultivated land |
| Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Letter of Hartophnachthes, son of Gour, to Eschnoumpmetis concerning leases of cultivated land. The sender will stay at his current whereabouts until gaining new instructions. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 9915 | man | Eschnoumpmetis (Lesonis) (P. 13559, 23580, 23637, 23641, 23665) | Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mtr | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) | 02 | Mesore | 05 | -332 BCE -222 BCE | Internal dating, without name of the ruler.; |
| DatasetID | 100427 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 46480 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100427 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13559), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
