Pap. Berlin P. 13548

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13548
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	registered as existing during revision (1958)
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

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

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, light
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	339 mm \| 58 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Only some minor holes and horizontal breaks.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	Palimpsest. Traces of an anterior text. Papyrus darkened due to the washing off. At the right rim a continous vertical sheet join (kollesis) (1,8 cm).

Text Basic Information

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)	Only minor holes without significant losses of text.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Unruhige, etwas klecksige und stellenweise schwer lesbare 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 papyrus, with a small upper margin only.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	26	1
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	50	52
Column Height (in mm)	315	70
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	50 x 315	52 x 70

Text Content

Modern Title	letter concerning deployment of a master builder
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Eschnoumpmetis, son of Horos
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Letter of Eschnompmetis (lesonis of Chnum?), to Snebonychos with the request of sending a master builder to execute upcoming construction works. Presumably a copy of the original, because the sender did not resided on Elephantine. Furthermore, specifications of the sender as well as letter formulas are missing.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	(n) Ns-nb-ꜥnḫ ¹Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52. pꜣ ḥm-nṯr tpy
2	ḏd n=y nꜣ wꜥb.w ḏd wn
3	mtw=n hrw 2 qd
4	dy ı͗w=f ḫpr ı͗w rḫ
5	Pꜣ-šr-pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ pꜣ (r.)qd
6	r ı͗y r-ḥry mtw=f ı͗r
7	pꜣ hrw 2 qd
8	my ı͗w=f
9	mtw(=f) ḫpr ı͗w=f (r) ı͗y
10	r-ẖry pꜣ hrw
11	tḫb r ḏı͗.t wꜥb
12	n ḥ.t-nṯr hb=k
13	(r-)dbꜣ.ṱ=f Tgmy ²According to Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae. Reading variant in Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993): tbꜣ ⸢stꜣ Kmy⸣. Cf. also Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52.
14	Pa-H̱nm nꜣ-dḥr ³For this reading cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52.
15	ı͗y md(.t) rmṯ nmḥ
16	nty sḫe ı͗w ⁴This is written for „r“. pꜣ nṯr
17	ı͗.ı͗r=ṯn r ı͗n rmṯ
18	ı͗w=f ḏd tꜣy=f md(.t) ı͗w mn
19	nty sḫe r pꜣ nṯr
20	ẖn=s bw-ı͗r-rḫ
21	=y pꜣ nty ḫpr
22	(r-)dbꜣ pꜣy ḥḏ qd.t ½
23	wn mtw Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Mḥy.t ⁵ Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993): Pꜣ-ty-⸢tfn.t⸣.
24	ı͗rm I͗y-m-ḥtp n-ḏr.t
25	Ns-H̱nm-pꜣ-mtr
26	n ḥsb.t 1.t ı͗bd 4 pr.t sw 9

¹ Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52.
² According to Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae. Reading variant in Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993): tbꜣ ⸢stꜣ Kmy⸣. Cf. also Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52.
³ For this reading cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52.
⁴ This is written for „r“.
⁵ Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993): Pꜣ-ty-⸢tfn.t⸣.

vso 1

n Ns-nb-ꜥnḫ pꜣ ḥm-nṯr tpy

1	(To) Snebonychos, the high priest.
2	Thus the wab priests have spoken to me as follows: ‘We
3	have 2 days of construction work
4	here.’ If
5	Psenpelaias, the master builder
6	is able to come up and
7	execute the two days construction work,
8	he may come!
9	And it should happen that he will come
10	down at the day
11	of the water benediction in order to clean himself
12	in the temple. You have sent
13	on account of this to Tegemi (and/ son of?)
14	Pachnoumis. Sad is
15	the appearance(?) of an insolence(?) ¹According to Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae. Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993): „Frechheit(?)“.
16	which hurts the god.
17	You should bring a man,
18	who presents his matter without
19	hurting the god ²Lit.: „... der seine Sache sagt, indem darin nichts ist, was gegen den Gott schlägt (o.ä.)).“ (according to Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae)..
20	I am not informed about
21	what has happened
22	concerning this ½ silver kite
23	which was possessed by Petemous
24	and Imouthes. Issued by
25	Eschnompmetis
26	in the 1st regnal year, 9th of Pharmuti. ´
vso 1	To Snebonychos, [_] the high priest.

¹ According to Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae. Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 2 (1993): „Frechheit(?)“.
² Lit.: „... der seine Sache sagt, indem darin nichts ist, was gegen den Gott schlägt (o.ä.)).“ (according to Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae).

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
1175	man	Imouthes (P. 13548)	Ỉy-m-ḥtp	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios I Soter	01	Pharmuthi	09	-304 June 8 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

DatasetID	100481
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46443
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100481 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13548), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.