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Pap. Berlin P. 13619

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Metadata

Collection

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

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) 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

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) 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

 

Text Content

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
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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1pḥ Ḥm-nṯr-Wsı͗r sꜣ Pa- sḏm=y
2nꜣ md.w(t) ı͗.ı͗r-ḫpr n-ı͗m=k ı͗rm nꜣ mt.w
3ı͗.ı͗r-ḫpr n nꜣ bꜣk.w H̱nm ı͗rm tꜣ pr.t
4r.ṯꜣy=w mtw=w ḏd=y nꜣ md.w(t) rn=w ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr
5pꜣ ḥm-nṯr H̱nm hb=f n Nḫṱ-Mn pꜣ ḥm-nṯr Mn
6(r-)dbꜣ nꜣ ꜣḥ(.w) n pꜣ ḥtp-nṯr H̱nm r tm ḏı͗.t sḫ
7rmṯ nb pꜣ tꜣ r.r=w hb=f n Pꜣ-šr-(n-)tꜣ-ı͗ḥ.t sꜣ Ns-šw-Tfn.t
8r tm sḫ r pꜣ ḥtp-nṯr H̱nm n md(.t) 1For the use of the singular see Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). nb(.t) ḏd=y s
9ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr=f (r-)dbꜣ pꜣ ı͗t 256 r.ṯꜣy=w mtw=w
10ḏd=f n=y ı͗.ı͗r=w ı͗n.ṱ=w r bnr (n) nꜣy=w ꜥwy.w bn
11tꜣy=w pr.t sḫ.t ı͗n tꜣy 2Contra the reading of U. Luft see Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005).m-ı͗r
12ḏı͗.t dḥr ḥꜣ.ṱ=k (r-)dbꜣ nꜣ md.w(t)
13ı͗.ı͗r-ı͗y bn-ı͗w Nḫṱ-Mn pꜣ ḥm-nṯr Mn
14ḏı͗.t šrf md(.t) 3For the use of the singular see Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). mtw=k st ḏd
15ı͗w pꜣ ḥm-nṯr H̱nm r ẖt dy n N.t n
16ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 1 ı͗w=f ẖt ı͗w=y (r) hb ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr=k
17n nꜣ nty ı͗w=w r ḫpr dy n-ḏr.t
18Pꜣ-wḏꜣ-mtw=s sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-(n-)tꜣ-ı͗ḥ.t n ḥsb.t 17 ibḏ 3 šmw sw 29

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).
vso 1ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr
1Arrived is Phomtisosiris, son of Pa-[///]. I have heard]
2the matters which happened to [you, and the matters]
3which happened to the servants of Chnoum, [and the] grain,
4which was taken from them. I have addressed the matters in question 1According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996). Reading variant Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae: „nämlichen“.to
5the priest of Chnoum. He has sent to Nechtminis, the priest of Min,
6concerning the fields of the divine offering 2Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): „Tempelgut“.of Chnoum, in order not to allow
7any man on earth to touch them. He 3Scil. the priest of Chnoum. has sent to Psintaes, son of Estphenis,
8not to touch the divine offering of Chnoum at all. I have spoken
9to him on account of the 256 (artabas) of barley which were taken from them.
10He has spoken to me: ‘They (the 256 artabas) should be brought out of their houses. It is not
11their seed-grain.’ Do not let
12your heart be saddened concerning the matters
13which have come. Nechtminis, the priest of Min, will not let
14a matter of yours go wrong. It is said
15that the priest of Chnoum will travel downstream here in Thebes on
161st Mesore. When he starts, I will send to you
17regarding that which should happen there. Issued by
18Potemetous, son of Psintaes, in the 17th regnal year, 29th of Epeiph.
vso 1To [_] [///]

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)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    1280 man Nechtminis (II.) Nḫṱ-Mn (II.) pre-Coptic Egyptian

     

    Dates

    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;

     

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    Literature

     

    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.