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Pap. Berlin P. 15704

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 15704
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory joining: Pap. Berlin P. 15704 und Pap. Berlin P. 23679 (combination of fragments not sure).
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 / 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

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, dark
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 50 mm | 75 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Consists of two not joining fragments. a: 50 x 76 mm. b: 71 x 75 cm. Only on the right side the original edge is preserved.
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) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Consists of three not joining fragments. Each with upper and lower parts broken off. All line endings lost.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Flüchtige, doch relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. Recto/Verso: The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire sheet, with a broad and equal right margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+4+y+6+y+2+z x+5+y+3+y+2+z
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 60 50+y
Column Height (in mm) 5070 70+y+50
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 60+y x 50+y+70 50+y x 70+y+50

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter concerning financial affairs of the Chnoum priests of Elephantine.
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Letter concerning financial affairs of the Chnoum priests of Elephantine.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_15704_Rv_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_15704_Rv_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_15704_Rv_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_15704_Rv_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100501
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46542
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100501 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15704), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.