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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 | |
Text Types |
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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. |