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Pap. Berlin P. 15612

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Metadata

Collection

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

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, 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.

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter concerning an account of income
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account | vertical format
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_15612_Rv_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_15612_Rv_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
9385 (unknown) [///]-schaty [///]-šꜥ-ty pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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.;

 

Pictures

P_15612_Rv_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_15612_Rv_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

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.