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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15810 |
Current Location | magazine |
Comments on Inventory | 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 / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) 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 1908 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
Object Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 90 mm | 66 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The left part is broken off in undetermined extent. Two small holes in the sheet, right edge damaged. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
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) | Line endings broken off at about half of the original line length. Some holes with minor text losses. | |
Script, Primary | Early to Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Relativ deutliche früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Narrow line pitch. The right-aligned text shows small upper, lower, and right margins. On Verso lower margin broader. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 8 | 6 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 60 | 60+y |
Column Height (in mm) | 80 | 60 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 60+y x 80 | 60+y x 60 |
Modern Title | letter of Espnebonchis presumably concerning matters of priests |
Ancient Archives | unclear |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter of Espnebonchis, son of Espneti-hetnetjer, with an answer on previous correspondence, presumably concerning matters of priests. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Late period or Early Ptolemaic period | -332 BCE -222 BCE | ; |
DatasetID | 100515 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46556 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100515 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15810), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |