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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. |