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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15618 |
| 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 District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Discovery | archaeological excavation Certainty: high |
| Finder (= First Purchaser) | Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) 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 1908 |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
| Object Type | papyrus |
| Color | papyrus, light |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 80 mm | 179 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | The upper part and the left part broken off in undetermined extent. Some minor holes in the sheet along the foldings. |
| Mounting | framed under glass |
| Restoration Activities | Restaurierung abgeschlossen |
| Comments on Object | Palimpsest. On the verso traces of an anterior text. According to the inventory "Abschrift und Deutung von W. Erichsen" existing. |
| Localization of Text on Object | recto | |
| Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | perpendicular (recto) | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | The upper part and all line endings broken off in undetermined extent. | |
| Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige, wenig ausgeglichene, teilweise undeutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift, dazu 3(+x) eigenhändige Zeugenunterschriften." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Medium line pitch. The right.aligned text shows medium right and lower margins. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | x+6 | 0 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 170 | 0 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 65 | 0 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 170+y x 65 | 0 |
| Modern Title | loan obligation of delivery of wine to the temple of Elephantine |
| Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Obligation of delivery of wine to the temple of Elephantine. Presumably in context with a loan. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text | According to Zauzich it is possible that the scribe is one of the opponents of this record. |
| 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 |
| 9510 | man | Espmetis, son of Espmetsepsis | Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ Ns-pꜢ-mtr-šps | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
| 1135 | man | Horos (P15619) | Ḥr | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
| 9500 | man | Payris, son of Harsiesis | Pa-Ḥr sꜢ Ḥr-sꜣ-ꜣs.t | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
| 9505 | man | Petosiris, son of Espmetis (P. 15618) | PꜢ-ḏỉ-Wsỉr sꜣ Ns-mte (P 15618)) | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) | 03 | Pachons | 12 | -332 BCE -222 BCE | ; |
| DatasetID | 100433 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 45702 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100433 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15618), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |