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Pap. Berlin P. 15500+15813+23678

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 15500+15813+23678
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory joining: Pap. Berlin P. 15500, Pap. Berlin P. 15813 + Pap. Berlin P. 23678; registered as existing during revision (1958)
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 (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

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 70 mm | 279 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The entire papyrus consists of three fragments joining directly. The left part is broken off in undetermined extent. Several minor holes in the preserved sheet.
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) Ending of first line broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Flüchtige, wenig deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. Recto: The text was placed onto the upper half of the sheet, with a small upper and a slightly broader right margin. The lower half remains uninscribed. Verso: Address line placed centered onto the lower half of the sheet.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2 1
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 265 150
Column Height (in mm) 25 10
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 265+y x 25 150 x 10

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter concerning the income of a Min priest
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | horizontal format
Summary of Content Letter of Ptaus, son of Espaheran, to the lesonis Snebonychos, concerning the income of a priest of Min.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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1ḫrw Pꜣ-ḏw sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-ḥr-ꜥn m-bꜣḥ Ns-pꜣ-nb-ꜥnḫ pꜣ mr-šn ı͗ ḏı͗ Prꜥ qy pꜣy=f ꜥḥꜥ pꜣ ḥrp Ṯꜣy-ḥr-pꜣ-tꜣ pꜣ ḥm nṯr Mn r ḥ.t-nṯr n Yb r ẖ nty nb nty sẖ
2sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Bꜣst.t ı͗w=y (r) ı͗p=f ẖr-r=f sẖ Pꜣ-ḏw sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-ḥr-ꜥn n ḥsb.t 4 ı͗bd 2 šmw sw 20
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vso 1ḫrw Pꜣ-ḏw sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-ḥr-ꜥn m-bꜣḥ Ns-pꜣ-nb-ꜥnḫ pꜣ mr-šn
1Voice of Ptaus, son of Espaheran [_] before Snebonychos, the lesonis. [_] Oh may Pre cause his lifetime to be long! [¬_] The income of Seharptos, the priest of Min in the temple at Elephantine, according to everything which was written [///]
2son of Petobastis: I will count it under it. [_] Written by Ptaus, son of Espaheran, in the 4th regnal year, 20th of Payni.
vso 1Voice of Ptaus, son of Espaheran [_] before Snebonychos, the lesonis.
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Yb (places.xml#s3)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    10220 woman Seharptos ṮꜢy-Ḥr-pꜢ-tꜢ pre-Coptic Egyptian

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) 04 Payni 20 -332 BCE -222 BCE ;

     

    Pictures

    P_15500+15813+23678_R
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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 100504
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 46494
    Author Jan Moje
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 100504 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15500+15813+23678), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.