Pap. Berlin P. 13564

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13564
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	Within this roll a seal was enwrapped, according to the inventory book, which also provides a small sketch. The seal could not be detected within the Berlin collection until now, possibly it is lost. Papyrus: 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 (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

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, light
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	326 mm \| 78 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	In the upper section two larger holes.
Mounting	framed under glass
Restoration Activities	Restaurierung abgeschlossen
Comments on Object	Sketch of the seal provided in the inventory book.

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)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	In the upper part several text losses.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire sheet, without lateral margins, but with a broader on top of the height of approximately two lines. Verso: Address line only, placed onto the upper section.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	28	1
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	75	64
Column Height (in mm)	285	10
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	75 x 285	64 x 10

Text Content

Modern Title	letter with an order of manufacturing doors
Ancient Archives	private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Letter to Parates, son of Inaros, without naming the sender. Ordering of doors and inquiry concerning the price which was not mentioned in the previous communication Additionally request on information abount the whereabouts of two former employees of the sender. According to Effland, this could refer to arrested people in connection with the revolt of Haronnophris and Chaonnophris.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

1	ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr Pa-rṱ sꜣ Ir.t-ḥr-r.r=w tw=y ı͗r nꜣy=k
2	sm(ꜣꜥ).w dy n.m-bꜣḥ Wsı͗r Ḥr ꜣs.t nꜣ nṯr.w
3	ꜣbḏw nty ı͗w=w ḏı͗.t ꜥḥꜥ=y ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr=k ı͗w mn
4	ḏꜣ ı͗n=w n=y pꜣy ṯk sḏm=y
5	pꜣy=k wḏꜣ ı͗rm nꜣ md.w(t) r.hb=k n=y n.ı͗m=w
6	r Ns-nb-ꜥnḫ NOTE pꜣ ḥm-nṯr Sḫm.t
7	r sḏy ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr=k n ꜥ nꜣ pšn
8	ı͗.ı͗r=y pꜣy=f ꜥš-sḥn hb=k n=y r nꜣ md.w(t)
9	n nꜣ ḫm.w sb.w bn-pw=k hb
10	n swn.ṱ=w ı͗w=f ḫpr ı͗w gm=k ẖr ı͗w=f n-ı͗w
11	r pr-mḥty my ı͗n=f s(t) mtw=k hb n=y
12	n swn.ṱ=w ḫpr=f r-ı͗w=y ḏi.t s n-ḏr.t
13	Ta-hꜣ my mnq=w s ı͗w nꜣ-ꜥn=s
14	m-ı͗r ḏı͗.t ı͗.ı͗r=w wrr NOTE dbꜣ ḫpr
15	ı͗w=y (n) pꜣy=w ḏf m-šs mtw=k
16	hb n=y tꜣy=w hm(.t) ꜥn wn rmṯ Pr-w-qr
17	2 ı͗n=w st r pr-rsy ẖn
18	nꜣ rmṯ.w Pr-w-rq ı͗w=w ṯꜣy r wꜥ ḫm (n)
19	kꜣm ı͗w ḫr-tw=w n=y hyn
20	ı͗rp n.ı͗m=f ı͗w bw-ı͗r-rḫ=n pꜣ mꜣꜥ
21	nty ı͗w=w ṯꜣy n.ı͗m=w r.r=f ı͗w=w ḏd n=w
22	ḥrꜣḥ n pꜣ s 2 my ḥn=w s
23	ı͗w ı͗r pꜣ šn n pꜣ mꜣꜥ nty ı͗w=w ṯꜣy.ṱ=w r.r=f
24	mtw=k pšn=k n=w mtw=k nw
25	ḏd ı͗w=k rḫ ḏı͗.t hb=w
26	r.r=w ı͗w=f ḫpr ı͗w wn md(.t) ı͗w=w wḫꜣ=s
27	dy my ḥn=w s r ḏı͗.t hb=w n=y n.ı͗m=s
28	sẖ ḥsb.t 3.t ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 23

vso 1

ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr Pa-rṱ sꜣ I͗r.t-ḥr-r.r=w

1	To Parates, son of Inaros. I greet
2	you here before Osiris, Horus (and) Isis, the gods
3	of Abydos [who will grant] that [I] stand before you without
4	harm. This letter has been brought to me. I have heard
5	about your well-being and about the matters concerning which you have sent to me.
6	Snebonychos, the priest of Sachmet,
7	will tell you about the nature NOTE of the services
8	which I have done on his order. You have sent to me concerning the matters
9	with the couple of doors. You have not sent
10	concerning their price. If you have found a ship(?) NOTE which
11	is on the way to the north, it may bring them! And you should send to me
12	concerning their price so that I might not give it (over) to the hand
13	of Taha. One may accomplish it well!
14	Do not let it be delayed, because
15	I need them very urgently NOTE! And you should
16	also send to me (concerning) their transport price. There are two men from Per-uqer
17	who were brought to the south among
18	the men from Per-uqer, who NOTE belong to a small garden
19	(and) who are used to deliver to me some
20	wine out of it. We do not know the place
21	to which they are brought, while NOTE it is said to them:
22	‘Guard the two men!’ May it be ordered
23	to ask for the place to which they will be brought!
24	And you should engage yourself in them, and you should
25	take care that you can cause one to send [to us ] NOTE
26	concerning them. If it happens that here is something which one will desire:
27	let it be ordered to send to us concerning it.
28	Written in the 3rd regnal year, 23rd of Epeiph.
vso 1	To Parates, [_] son of Inaros.

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Places (read out from edition)

Pr-w-qr (places.xml#s39)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
27110	man	Parates, son of Inaros (P 13564)	Pa-rṱ sꜢ Ỉr.t-ḥr-r.r=w	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios V Epiphanes	03	Epeiph	23	-202 August 27 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

den Brinker, Anna Adriana & Muhs, Brian & Vleeming, Sven P., A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents (2005). (14, 53)
Effland, Andreas & Effland, Ute, Abydos, Tor zur ägyptischen Unterwelt (2013). (115)
Lüddeckens, Erich, Papyri, Demotische, Berlin (1982). (no. F24)
Vleeming, Sven P., The Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents in A. D. 2007 – 2009 (2010). (5)
Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). (no. 34)
Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Papyri von der Insel Elephantine 2 (1993). (no. 13564)

DatasetID	100472
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46446
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100472 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13564), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.