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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 13619 |
Current Location | magazine |
Comments on Inventory | registered as existing during revision (1958) |
Publication Permission Status | (unknown) |
Publication Status | published |
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) | 353 mm | 74 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | The upper left corner is lost, small holes at the right edge. On the verse a vertical strip was teared off for the wrapping of the entire roll. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
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) | Endings of lines 1-2 and 7-8 as well as upper part of l. 3 lost. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Geübte mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the sheet, without lateral margins, but with a broad upper one. The lower part remains uninscribed. Verso: One line with address is placed onto the upper part of the sheet. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 18 | 1 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 70,235 | |
Column Height (in mm) | 15,5 | |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 70 x 235 | 15+y x 5 |
Modern Title | letter concerning illegal grain transport from the Chnoum temple domain |
Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter of Potemetous, son of Psintaes, to a Chnoum priest currently staying in Thebes, concerning illegal grain transport from the Chnoum temple domain. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 For the use of the singular see Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). 2 Contra the reading of U. Luft see Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). 3 For the use of the singular see Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005).
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1 According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996). Reading variant Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae: „nämlichen“. 2 Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): „Tempelgut“. 3 Scil. the priest of Chnoum. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
1280 | man | Nechtminis (II.) | Nḫṱ-Mn (II.) | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios III Euergetes | 17 | Epeiph | 29 | -230 September 9 BCE | The same scribe is mentioned on Pap. Berlin P. 13532. internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 100452 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46491 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100452 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13619), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |