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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15771 |
Current Location | magazine |
Comments on Inventory | joining: Pap. Berlin P. 15771 und Pap. Berlin P. 23564 |
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 |
Date of Discovery Term. Ante / Post Quem Non |
between 11 1 1907 and 11 1 1907 |
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 1907 and 1907 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
Object Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 98 mm | 152 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The upper as well as the left parts are broken off in undetermined extent. In the upper right section a rectangular hole. P. 15771 connects the two fragments of P. 23564 a and P. 23564 b. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Comments on Object | In the lower section one horizontal continuous sheet join (kollesis). |
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) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Upper part (recto) resp. lower part (verso) broken off in undetermined extent. All line beginings and most of the line endings lost.Lower part broken off in undetermined extent. Partly faded. | |
Script, Primary | Early Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Early Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige, frühdemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, with small margins on all sides. With small lower (recto) resp. upper (verso) margin. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | x+6 (whole) | 6+y (whole) |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 260 | 260 |
Column Height (in mm) | 75 | 75+y |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 260 x x+75 | 260 x 75 |
Modern Title | letter concerning, among others, the delivery of tgm oil |
Ancient Archives | unclear |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter concerning, among others, the delivery of tgm oil. Partly very difficult to understand. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
10460 | man | Artais (Lesonis) | ỈꜤḥ-ỉ:ỉr-ḏỉ-s | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
10455 | man | Pibesis, son of Inaros | PꜢy-bs sꜢ Ir.t-ḥr-r-r=w | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) | -664 BCE -332 BCE | ; |
DatasetID | 100500 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46568 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100500 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15771), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |