Pap. Berlin P. 13539

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13539
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 1907
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, dark
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	110 mm \| 270 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Several small holes at the lateral edges, minor horizontal and vertical breaks, otherwise complete.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	The papyrus was coiled up from bottom to top.

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 Demotic
Language, Primary	Early Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Flüssige und sorgfältige frühdemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. Recto: The text was placed onto the upper half of the surface of the papyrus, with small but equal lateral margins. On top a broader margin is left free. The lower half remains uninscribed. Verso: Only one line address in the upper third.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	1
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	265
Column Height (in mm)	55
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	265 x 55	0

Modern Title	letter to Farandata concerning replacement of the lesonis priest office
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive \| correspondence with Persian satraps
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Espmetis, son of Esyris (II.)
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| horizontal format
Summary of Content	Letter of the Chnoum priests to the satrap Farandata ("Pherendates") concerning the replacement of the office holder of the lesonis priest, initiated and executed against order of the satrap himself. The text was written by Espmetis, son of Esouris.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Transcription

Translation

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1	ḫrw bꜣk.w (n) nꜣ wꜥb.w n H̱nm ꜥꜣ nb Yb m-bꜣḥ Prntt nty-ı͗w Km(.t) ḥn n=f tw=n ı͗r n nꜣ smꜣꜥ n Prntt
2	m-bꜣḥ H̱nm pꜣ nṯr ꜥꜣ ı͗ ḏı͗ H̱nm q(y) pꜣy=f ꜥḥꜥ ḫpr ḥsb.t 29 ı͗bd 4 pr.t nꜣ ss n dı͗.t šsp n pꜣ mr-šn rk=n Pꜣ-ḏı͗-H̱nm
3	sꜣ Ḥꜥꜥ-ı͗b-Rꜥ ı͗w=f n mr-šn ḏı͗=n šsp n=f Ns-H̱nm-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Ḥr-ḫb n mr-šn tw=n mtr.w r
4	ı͗r=f n pꜣ mr-šn ı͗w=f r ḏı͗.t fy.w ı͗w=f r ḏı͗.t ı͗r=w grr m-bꜣḥ H̱nm n-ḏr.t Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Ns-Ḥr pꜣ ḥry mnḫ(.t) n ḥsb.t 30
5	ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 2

vso1	ḫrw bꜣk.w (n) nꜣ wꜥb.w n H̱nm ꜥꜣ nb Yb m-bꜣḥ Prntt nty-ı͗w Km(.t) ḥn n=f

1	Voice of the servants, the wab priests of Chnoum the Great, master of Elephantine, before Farandata, to whom Egypt is entrusted: We perform the blessings of Farandata
2	before Khnum, the great god. Oh, may Chnoum cause his lifetime to be long! It happened on the 29th regnal year (of Dareios I.), Pharmouthi, the time for appointing a successor to the lesonis, that we had disposed Petechnoumis,
3	son of Oaphres, who was lesonis. We had caused Eschnompmetis, son of Harchebis, to follow him as lesonis. We are in agreement
4	[to appoint him as] lesonis. He will cause supplies of offerings and burnt-offerings to be presented before Chnoum. Issued by Espmetis, son of Esyris, the chief of the (sacred) wrappings, in the 30th regnal year,
5	2nd of Thoth.

vso1	Voice of the servants, the wab priests of Chnoum the great, master of Elephantine, before Farandata, to whom Egypt is entrusted.

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
780	man	Eschnoumpmetis, son of Harchebis	Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ Ḥr-ḫb	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Darius I	30	Thoth	02	-492 December 20 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Erichsen, Wolja, Auswahl frühdemotischer Texte. Zum Gebrauch im akademischen Unterricht sowie zum Selbststudium zusammengestellt (1950). (69)
Hughes, George R., The So-Called Pherendates Correspondence (1984). (84)
Lüddeckens, Erich, Papyri, Demotische, Berlin (1982). (Nr. F9)
Martin, Cary J., The Demotic Texts (1996). (294-295 no. C 3)
Porten, Bezalel, The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change (1996). (C3)
Spiegelberg, Wilhelm, Aus der demotischen Korrespondenz eines persischen Satrapen des Darius I mit den Chnum-Priestern von Elephantine (1928). (329-330)
Spiegelberg, Wilhelm, Drei demotische Schreiben aus der Korrespondenz des Pherendates, des Satrapen Darius' I., mit den Chnum-Priestern von Elephantine (1928). (Nr. 2)
Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). (Nr. 13 )

DatasetID	100482
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46469
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100482 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13539), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.