Pap. Berlin P. 13551

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13551
Current Location	magazine
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)	346 mm \| 107 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	The upper right edge is broken off. One larger horizontal hole in the sheet.
Mounting	framed under glass

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)	Partly blurred. Beginnings of the first (recto) resp. last (verso) lines lost. In the middle one narrow horizontal hole wit text losses.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Flüchtige, sehr enge mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Narrow line pitch. Recto/ Verso: The text was placed centered onto the surface of the papyrus, without lateral margins, with a broad upper and a smaller lower margin.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	34	32
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	105,105
Column Height (in mm)	305,305
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	105 x 305	105 x 305

Modern Title	letter concerning disputes between priests because of tempel service and correspondent incomes
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Hartophnachthes, son of Snebonychos
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Letter of Hartophnachthes, son of Snebonychos, to Eschnoumpmetis, son of Snebonychos, concerning disputes between priests because of their temple service and related income (bread).
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
775	man	Eschnoumpmetis, son of Chnoummachis	Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ H̱nm-m-Ꜣḫ.t	pre-Coptic Egyptian
1435	man	Pa-ir-dit (P. 13551)	Pa-ỉr-ḏỉ.t	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	19	Mecheir	12	-266 April 4 BCE	Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

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DatasetID	100486
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46477
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100486 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13551), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.