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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15516 |
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 / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) 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 1908 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
Object Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 312 mm | 64 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. The right half of the preserved upper part is lost. Several minor holes ion the sheet, mainly along a vertical line. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Comments on Object | The papyrus is still mounted on paper (05/2016). |
Localization of Text on Object | recto | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (recto) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | The upper part broken off in undetermined extent. Beginnings of lines x+1 - 4, 6 - 7 lost. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Geübte und überwiegend gut lesbare mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Medium line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire sheet, without margins. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | x+24 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 65 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 305 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 65 x x+305 | 0 |
Modern Title | letter concerning maintenance |
Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter of Potemetous, son of Psintaes, partly lost, concerning maintenance for the addressees whose names are not preserved. Request of punishment of a man in Philae. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 Zur Ansetzung des Singulars siehe Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). 2 Zur Ansetzung des Singulars siehe Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). |
1 Reading variant ⸢ꜥnḫ⸣ -?- „so wahr … lebt“. Cf. Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C8, he supposed for the word in the gap Ptḥ or Skr. 2 Cf. Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C8, for „district“ contra „nome“. 3 Reading variant Martin, Demotic Texts (1996) C8: wn-nꜣ.w-ı͗w=y ı͗y „I was coming to Philae“. 4 Collective, in effect the plural should be used here. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
2070 | man | Sirthotes, son of Harnouphis | Sr-Ḏḥwtỉ sꜢ Ḥr-nfr | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios III Euergetes | 19 | Thoth | 22 | -229 November 7 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 100488 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46499 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100488 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15516), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |