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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15598 |
| Current Location | magazine |
| Comments on Inventory | registered as existing during revision (1958) |
| Publication Permission Status | permission for publication assigned |
| 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 |
| Date of Discovery Term. Ante / Post Quem Non |
between 15 12 1906 and 15 12 1906 |
| 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 1906 |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
| Object Type | papyrus |
| Color | papyrus, light |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 105 mm | 260 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | The lower part and possibly also the right part(?) are broken off in undetermined extent. Some minor holes in the sheet. |
| Mounting | framed under glass |
| Restoration Activities | Restaurierung abgeschlossen |
| Comments on Object | Palimpest. On the recto as well as on verso there are traces of an anterior text, After registration in the museum, parts of the papyrus are lost. According to a photograph from the 1980, the two main fragments of the papyrus were joined incorrectly, the lines of the verso were seen as the lower part of the recto. |
| Localization of Text on Object | recto | |
| Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (recto) | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | Partly faded. At the bottom broken off in undetermined extent. On recto one, on verso two lines lost after 1945. | |
| Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige, doch relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. 1st column on the upper fourth of the sheet, 2nd column rotated by 90° relating to the 1st column. The lower part of the sheet remains uninscribed. The 6th and last line of col 2 is lost today, but counted in the inventory book entry. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 6 + 5[+1] | 0 |
| Quantity of Columns | 2 | 0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 80 | 0 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 80 | 0 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 80 x 80 | 0 |
| Modern Title | Beginning of a letter, with affixed invoice on jar deliveries |
| Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Beginning of a letter of Eschnoumpmetis, son of Snebonychos. On the left a small sheet of papyrus is affixed (rotated by 90°), with an invoice concerning delivery of jars. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) | -332 BCE -222 BCE | Dating by palaeography.; |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
| DatasetID | 100478 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 46511 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100478 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15598), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
