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Pap. Berlin P. 13635

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 13635
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) 330 mm | 70 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent.
Mounting framed under glass
Comments on Object Palimpsest. Traces of an anterior text on the verso.

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 upper part is broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting Recto und Verso bis Z. 2 Mitte: "Flüchtige, jedoch ziemlich deutliche, geübte mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) Verso Z. 2 Mitte - Z. 16: "weniger sorgfältige und stellenweise recht undeutliche Schrift einer anderen Hand." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 28 16
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 65 60
Column Height (in mm) 320 190
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 65 x 320 60 x 190

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter possibly concerning a capture
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Hardly understandable letter only partly preserved, containing information provided to the overseer of the fields concerning a man captured by Nubians(?). From line 2 vso onwards second hand /second text.
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_13635_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_13635_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
10090 man Achoapis Ꜥnḫ-Ḥp pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) 19 Pachons 10 -332 BCE -222 BCE Dating by palaeography. Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

Pictures

P_13635_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_13635_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100453
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46493
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100453 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13635), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.