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Pap. Berlin P. 13546

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 13546
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory registered as existing during revision (1958)
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned

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, dark
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 260 mm | 53 mm | mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete. Only some horizontal breaks and minor holes.
Mounting framed under glass

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) Complete, but partly faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Sorgfältige und relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire surface of the papyrus, with one broader margin on top only. Verso: Address only. Second line rotated by 180°.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 24 2
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 50
Column Height (in mm) 230
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 50 x 230 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter concerning a request of delivery of different things
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter of Espmetis, son of Pa-di-iri-hemes-nfer, to Pachnumis with a request of delivery of some things to the north. According to Zauzich, the sender of the letter is the same person as that one in Pap. Dodgson (l. 2).
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_13546_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_13546_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
9875 man Pachnoumis (P. 13546) Pa-H̱nm pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) 10 Mesore 16 -332 BCE -222 BCE Dating by palaeography. Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

Pictures

P_13546_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_13546_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100485
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46474
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100485 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13546), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.