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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 13563 |
| Current Location | magazine |
| Comments on Inventory | coiled up together with Pap. Berlin P. 13562 registered as existing during revision (1958) |
| Publication Permission Status | permission for publication assigned |
| 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 (excavation director) 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 1907 |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
| Object Type | papyrus |
| Color | papyrus, light |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 46 mm | 152 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | The right part is broken off in undetermined extent. |
| Mounting | framed under glass |
| Restoration Activities | Restaurierung abgeschlossen |
| 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) | complete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | All line beginning lost. | |
| Script, Primary | Early Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Early Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige frühdemotische Geschäftsschrift, die besonders auf dem Recto nicht sehr sorgfältig ist." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Medium line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, with a small upper and a broad lower margin. Verso: The left third remains uniscribed, except for the address line rotated by 90° in respect to the main text. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 3 | 3+1 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 145,85 | |
| Column Height (in mm) | 30,3 | |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 145 x 30 | 85 x 30 |
| Modern Title | letter |
| Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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| Summary of Content | Left half of a letter of Harchebis to the priests of Chnoum, mentioning persons came "here". |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text | According to K.-Th. Zauzich unusual placing of the text. Recto with fibres horizontally, verso with address rotated 90° in respect to the main text, |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 9920 | man | Espmetis, son of Espmetsepsis (P. 13563) | Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ Ns-pꜢ-mtr-šps | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) | -664 BCE -332 BCE | Dating by palaeography.; |
| DatasetID | 100467 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 46481 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100467 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13563), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |