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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 13537 |
Current Location | exhibition | Neues Museum, Berlin |
Comments on Inventory | 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 1906 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
Object Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 320 mm | 95 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | In the middle of the sheet a large vertical and rectangular hole, on the left side a continuous holey breaking edge. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Comments on Object | A continous vertical sheet join (kollesis) in about 6,5 - 7,5 cm distance from the right edge (1 cm). |
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) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | One larger and several minor holes along the break with loss of text. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Äußerst sorgfältige und gut lesbare 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 surface of the papyrus, without lateral and lower margins. The broad margin on top was filled with the address. Verso: The text is placed onto the upper third of the surface, without lateral margins | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 32 | 10 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 90 | 90 |
Column Height (in mm) | 310 | 100 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 90 x 310 | 90 x 100 |
Modern Title | letter concerning correction of incorrect tax caculations |
Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter of Teos to Teos, son of Pachnoumis, requesting corrections of incorrect tax calculations. Obviously not all persons liable for taxation had been mentioned in the tax lists. Added are the amounts of money to be remargined including 100% additional penal charge, sorted by tax type and amount of persons. |
Location of Composition | Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man Woman |
Comment on Gender | - Activity of woman: tax payer (summary reference to amount of payment) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 Suggestion made by Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978). 2 For this interpretation instead of the previous [Nꜣ]-kꜣ-ms cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52. 3 Scil. the protest.
1 The reading and transcription of this sign which means „and“ is questionable: Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993), P. 13537. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
735 | man | Demetrios (tax farmer) | Tmtrys | Greek, Ancient |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios IV Philopator | 05 | Payni | 09 | -217 July 17 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 100480 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 44206 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100480 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13537), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |