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Pap. Berlin P. 15643

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Metadata

Collection

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

Origin / Provenance

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

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.

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter possibly concerning delivery of grain
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | horizontal format
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_15643_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_15643_V
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

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)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period or Early Ptolemaic period -664 BCE -222 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_15643_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_15643_V
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

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.