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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 13565 |
Current Location | magazine |
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) | 337 mm | 80 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | In the upper part several larger, horizontally stringed holes. |
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) | Beginning of first line damaged. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Geübte, äußerst sorgfältige und deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Very wide line pitch Recto: The text is placed onto the middle third of the sheet, without lateral margins. First two lines with some distance to the rest of the text. Verso: Address line only, placed onto the upper section. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 13 | 1 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 75 | 75 |
Column Height (in mm) | 160 | 15 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 75 x 160 | 75 x 15 |
Modern Title | Letter concerning delegation of Chnoum priest to Alexandria to deliver stick bouquets |
Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter of Eschnompmetis, son of Snebonychos, concerning delegation and returm of a Chnoum priest to Alexandria. He had to deliver stick bouquets ("Stabsträuße") to the king on the occasion of the annual victory celebration of the battle of Raphia. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 Spiegelberg read Pꜣ-ḏı͗…. |
1 Cf. Martin, Demotic Texts (1996) C13. 2 According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), no.C13. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
1535 | man | Parates, son of Inaros | Pa-rṱ sꜢ Ỉr.t-ḥr-r.r=w | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios IV Philopator | 06 | Payni | 29 | -216 August 6 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 100477 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46482 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100477 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13565), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |