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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 | |
| Text Types |
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| 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) |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 10380 | man | Psorchonsis | Pꜣ-ẖr-Ḫnsw | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
| 14050 | Vahazdata | ויזדת | Aramaic, Imperial |
| 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. ; |
| P_15808_Rv_R_001 |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| P_15808_Rv_R_001 |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| 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. |
