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Pap. Berlin P. 15810

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Metadata

Collection

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

Origin / Provenance

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

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

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter of Espnebonchis presumably concerning matters of priests
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | horizontal format
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_15810_R
Reserved Copyright
P_15810_V
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period or Early Ptolemaic period -332 BCE -222 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_15810_R
Reserved Copyright
P_15810_V
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

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.