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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 13562 |
Current Location | magazine |
Comments on Inventory | coiled up together with Pap. Berlin P. 13563 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, dark |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 307 mm | 46 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Only very few minor holes. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Restoration Activities | Restaurierung abgeschlossen |
Comments on Object | One continous horizontal sheet join (kollesis), about 15 cm below the upper rim. |
Localization of Text on Object | recto/verso | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (verso) and perpendicular (recto) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Complete. | |
Script, Primary | Early to Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige, merkwürdig unruhige früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the sheet, without lateral margins, a small one on top and a very broad one at the bottom. On verso two wiped out lines, possibly from the original outside address. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 28 | 22 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 45 | 42 |
Column Height (in mm) | 290 | 245 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 45 x 290 | 42 x 245 |
Modern Title | Oracular inquery concerning the temple on Elephantine |
Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | cultic archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | (Draft of a?) Letter of Osoroeris, son of Espmetis, to Eschnompmetis, son of Chnoummachis. Inquery of obtaining an oracle concerning the fate of the temple on Elephantine and a second one regarding his intended travel. Additionally he deals with the delivery of things lacking on the island, including grain. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1 Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 53. 2 Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993): „Möge man (das Orakel) befragen nach meinem Heil“. 3 Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993): „ob ich hier auf Elephantine bleiben soll.“ |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
775 | man | Eschnoumpmetis, son of Chnoummachis | Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ H̱nm-m-Ꜣḫ.t | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) | 29 | -332 BCE -222 BCE | Dating by palaeography; |
DatasetID | 100474 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46445 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100474 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13562), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |