Pap. Berlin P. 13620
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number |
Pap. Berlin P. 13620 |
| 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) |
345 mm | 73 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
Damage of the lateral edges in the upper part.
On the verse a small vertical strip was teared off for the wrapping of the entire roll.
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| Mounting |
framed under glass |
| Comments on Object |
Continuous vertical sheet join (kollesis) (1,5 cm). |
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) |
Line beginnings and endings in the upper part damaged. |
| Script, Primary |
Middle Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic Demotic |
| Comments on Handwriting |
"Flüchtige, nicht besonders sorgfältige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift, anfangs sehr klein, später größer werdend." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Recto:
Narrow line pitch, getting broader to the end with larger signs. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the sheet, without lateral margins, but with a small upper one.
Verso:
Narrow line pitch.
The text was placed onto the upper half of the surface of the sheet, without lateral margins, but with a broad upper margin. The lower half remains uninscribed except for the address line in the very lower part. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
32 |
14+1 (address) |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
70,65 |
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| Column Height (in mm) |
315,155 |
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| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
70 x 315 |
65 x 155 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
letter concerning an oath taken by a woman |
| Ancient Archives |
private archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | letter | vertical format
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| Summary of Content |
Letter of Hartophnachthes, son of Snebonychos, to Eschnompmetis concerning an oath taken by a woman. The addressee was requested not to swear an oath at his whereabouts. Partly hardly understandable. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man
Woman |
| Comment on Gender |
- Activity of woman: person who took an oath |
| Religion |
Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Text
People mentioned in Text
Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) |
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Payni |
27 |
-332 BCE -222 BCE |
Dating by palaeography.; |
Pictures
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Literature
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den Brinker, Anna Adriana & Muhs, Brian & Vleeming, Sven P., A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents (2005). (15)
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Lüddeckens, Erich, Papyri, Demotische, Berlin (1982). (no. F39)
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Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). (no. 71)
| DatasetID |
100447 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
46492 |
| Author |
Jan Moje |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 100447 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13620), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
