Pap. Berlin P. 15808

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 15808
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	registered as existing during revision (1967)
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned

Ancient Provenance Site	unknown () [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	unknown () [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	(unknown) Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	(unknown) Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	unknown
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	unknown () [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	(unknown)
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 0 and 0
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(unknown) Certainty: high

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, light
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	99 mm \| 93 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The lower part is broken off in undetermined extent. Several breaks as well as a larger holes, lateral edges damaged. On the entire sheet vertical breaks in narrow intervals.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	Palimpsest. Traces of an anterior text.

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)	Recto: Lower part broken off in undetermined extent. Some breaks and holes with text losses. Line beginnings and endings slightly damages. Verso: All line beginnings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Flüchtige, kleine, etwas klecksige früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Narrow line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, without lateral margins and a small upper margin. Verso: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, rotated by 90 ° with respect to the Recto. With small upper and lower margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	10+y	9
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	90	x+100
Column Height (in mm)	90	75
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	90 x 90+y	x+100 x 75

Modern Title	letter with expression of worry about a man to whom contact was lost
Ancient Archives	private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Espmetis, son of Teos
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Letter of Espmetis, son of Teos, to Pchorchonsis. He is worried about a certain Peteese from whom he had not heard anything after his departure to the south. Mentioning of the Assyrians.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Late period or Early Ptolemaic period	02			-664 BCE -222 BCE	Dating by palaeography. ;

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DatasetID	100512
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46555
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100512 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15808), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.