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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15703 |
| Current Location | magazine |
| Publication Permission Status | permission for publication assigned |
| 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, dark |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 303 mm | 56 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. One rectangular hole in the middle of the sheet. |
| Mounting | framed under glass |
| Comments on Object | Palimpsest. The anterior text was erased on the recto only, because the new text was written on this side. For the second use a small part was teared off from the original sheet. |
| 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) | New Text (TM 46541): on recto. Old text (TM 115601), erased on recto, but completely preserved on verso. | |
| Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige, wenig sorgfältige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | 1) Old text: Recto: Erased. Verso: Wide line pitch.The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, with a small right and a medium upper margin, without left margin. 2) New text: Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, with a small right and a medium lower margin, without left margin. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | x+22 (new text) | 22+y (old text) |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 (new text) | 1 (old text) |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 55 | 55 (old text) |
| Column Height (in mm) | 305 | 285 (old text) |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 55 x 305 (new text) | 55 x 285 (old text) |
| Modern Title | Account (old text) / letter concerning the arrival in the Abydene nome (new text) |
| Ancient Archives | private archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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| Summary of Content | 1) Old text (verso): Account of unclear context. 2) New text (recto): Letter concerning the arrival in the Abydene nome and visiting a certain Espmetis. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 13935 | man | Espmetis (P. 15703) | Ns-pꜢ-mtr | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
| 13940 | man | Potemetous priest (P. 15703) | PꜢ-wḏꜢ-mtw=s | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic dynasty | 06(?) | Pachons | 15 | -332 BCE -30 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler (new text); |
| P_15703_Rv_R_001 |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| P_15703_Rv_V_001 |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| DatasetID | 100493 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 115601 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100493 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15703), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
