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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15502 |
Current Location | magazine |
Comments on Inventory | corded together with P. 15001, 15003, 15004 ; registered as existing during revision (1967) |
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 (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 Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 52 mm | 156 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The left part is broken off in undetermined extent. After 1945 loss of the uppper right corner and several breaks. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Comments on Object | On a photo prior to 1945 the upper right corner, today lost, is still existing completely. |
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) | Endings of all lines broken off. Beginning of first line damaged after 1945. | |
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 | Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text shows a small upper margin in the height of approximately one line. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 4 | 1 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 150 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 45 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 150+y x 45 | 0 |
Modern Title | Letter concerning the endowment of the archentaphiast |
Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter of Psintaes, son of Petepiphis, to the lesonis Snebonychos. It contains a request for assignment for the endowment of the archentaphiast who will come to Aswan. Same context with identical sender/ address: Pap. Berlin P. 15501 - 15503. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: ) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
10200 | man | Snebonychos (= Lesonis) ( P. 15500+23678+15813, 15501, 15502) | Ns-pꜣ-nb-Ꜥnḫ | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
10210 | man | Teos, son of Harmachoros | Ḏd-ḥr sꜢ Ḥr-mꜣꜥ-ḫrw | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) | 05 | Payni | 15 | -332 BCE -222 BCE | Dating by palaeography. Internal dating, without name of the ruler.; |
DatasetID | 100509 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46496 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100509 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15502), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |