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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15616 |
| 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) | 83 mm | 289 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | The left part is broken off in undetermined extent. The upper and right sections are damaged, several breaks and minor holes in the sheet. |
| Mounting | framed under glass |
| Restoration Activities | Restaurierung abgeschlossen |
| Comments on Object | According to the inventory "Abschrift und Deutung von W. Erichsen" existing. |
| Localization of Text on Object | recto/verso | |
| Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (verso) and perpendicular (recto) | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | Line endings (recto) resp. beginnings (verso) broken off in undetermined extent. Some minor text damages. | |
| Script, Primary | Early to Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Sehr flüchtige und teilweise recht undeutliche früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Medium line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire sheet, with small upper and lower margins. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 6 | 6 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 280 | 280 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 65 | 70 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 280 x 65 | 280 x 70 |
| Modern Title | letter concerning the transport of a cow |
| Ancient Archives | private archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Hardly understandable letter of Espmetsepsis, son of Bochorinis, to Snebonychos, presumably concerning the transport of a cow on a ship. |
| 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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| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 210 | (uncertain) | Snebonychos (carrier-of-Ra) | Ns-pꜢ-nb-Ꜥnḫ | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Late period - Early Ptolemaic dynasty | -664 BCE -222 BCE | Internal dating, without name of the ruler. Dating by palaeography.; |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
| P_15616_V |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
| DatasetID | 100437 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 46521 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100437 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15616), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
