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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 13549 |
Current Location | magazine |
Comments on Inventory | coiled up together with Pap. Berlin P. 13550 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 (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) | 359 mm | 82 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Minor holes, small breaks at the horizontal foldings. Still detectable is the part where a strip was teared off for the wrapping of the entire roll. Left edge a little bit frayed. |
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) | complete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Minor damages along the breaks. | |
Script, Primary | Early to Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | Gute früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. Recto/ Verso: The text covers nearly the entire surface of the papyrus, with one small margin on top only. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 29 | 29 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 80 | 53 |
Column Height (in mm) | 348 | 348 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 80 x 348 | 53 x 348 |
Modern Title | letter |
Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter of Hartophnachthes, son of Snebonychos, to Eschnoumpmetis, with partly unclear context. Including answer on two previous letters concerning employment of priests and revision in the temple. |
Location of Composition | Philae Lower Nubia / Wawat Egypt (Certainty: medium) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 But cf. also Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52. 2 Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae. Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993): rn=w ⸢ı͗r tm⸣ ḫꜣꜥ=w r-ꜥ.wy=k; cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52. 3 Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52. 4 Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52.
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1 Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993): „… um (sie) im Tempel (ein)zuschreiben.“ 2 Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993): „man hat abgerechnet.‘ Schreib (auch) an die Priester die nämlichen Worte!“ 3 According to Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993). Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae reads here „?“. 4 Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52. 5 Comment in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae: (eigentl. "geschrieben habt" = "geschrieben haben werdet"). 6 According to Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993). 7 According to Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae. Reading variant by Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52: „my name is not | the name of Osoroeris“. 8 Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae gives here only „?“, Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993) translates “Unwetter(?)”. 9 According to Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae. Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993): „Chnoum-em-hapi“. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
705 | man | Chnemeus | H̱nm-ỉw | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios IV Philopator | -400 BCE -301 BCE | Dating by palaeography; |
DatasetID | 100469 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46444 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100469 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13549), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |