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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. ; |
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. |