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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15643 |
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) | 65 mm | 75 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The left part and the lower (recto) resp. upper (verso) part are broken off in undetermined extent. On the rigfht side only very little is missing. Some breaks and holes in the sheet. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
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 (recto) and perpendicular (verso) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | The left and upper parts are broken off. On the verso, presumably only the very last line of the original text is missing. On the right side, only few is missing. | |
Script, Primary | Early to Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | Flüchtige früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Relativ wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire sheet. Recto: Without lower margin. Verso: With a small upper margin. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | x+6 | 5[+1] |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 75 | 75 |
Column Height (in mm) | 60 | 50+y |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 75 x x+60 | 75 x 50+y |
Modern Title | letter possibly concerning delivery of grain |
Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter of Espmetsepsis, son of Bochorinis, possibly concerning delivery of grain. |
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 |
8060 | not applicable | (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) | (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) | (none) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Late period or Early Ptolemaic period | -664 BCE -222 BCE | ; |
DatasetID | 100440 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46529 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100440 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15643), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |