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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. |