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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15612 |
Current Location | magazine |
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, dark |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 288 mm | 83 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The upper part is broken off in undetermined but presumably only little extent. Several broad holes in the sheet. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Comments on Object | Palimpsest. On the recto as well as on the verso there are 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) | The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Several line beginnings lost. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige, unruhige und unausgeglichene mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Medium line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire sheet, without lateral margins, but with a broad lower margin. Verso: Only two lines in the upper section, presumably from another scribe. Independent text? | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | x+26 | 2 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 80 | 70 |
Column Height (in mm) | 275 | 25 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 80 x 275 | 70 x 25 |
Modern Title | letter concerning an account of income |
Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | letter concerning an account of income |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
9385 | (unknown) | [///]-schaty | [///]-šꜥ-ty | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) | Pachons | 17 | -332 BCE -222 BCE | Dating by palaeography.; |
DatasetID | 100519 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 43983 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100519 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15612), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |