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Pap. Berlin P. 13574 a - e

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13574 a - e
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	joining: Pap. Berlin P. 13574 a-e + 23658. registered as existing during revision (1958)
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

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)	Zucker, Friedrich (excavation director) 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 1907 and 1908
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness)	155 mm | 183 mm | mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Several fragments of different format, according to Zauzich (VOHD XIX,2) currently not arranged in their right position. The numberings a - e shall be changed after a new arrangement of the fragments.
Mounting	between layers of paper
Comments on Object	On recto and verso traces of an anterior text, close the the end a clearly preserved column.

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)	Partly faded. Several holes with text losses.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Geübte, relativ sorgfältige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	[currently unknown]
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	ca. 19 columns with ca. 13 each	ca. 6 colums with ca. 13 each
Quantity of Columns	ca. 19	ca. 6
Line Lenght (in mm)	1540	580
Column Height (in mm)	150	150
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	ca. 1540 x 150	ca. 580 x 150

 

Text Content

Modern Title	account of bread offerings for Chnoum and for wheat delivery
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [lost])
Text Types	documentary | account documentary | list
Summary of Content	Account of baked bread as offerings for Chnoum for a selected period, beginning with the 1st of Tybi of a 15th regnal year. On verso account of wheat delivery. Connection of both texts currently unclear.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8090	not applicable	(no further persons mentioned)	(no further persons mentỈoned)	(none)

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty	15			-332 BCE -30 BCE	Dating by palaeography.;

 

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Literature

• den Brinker, Anna Adriana & Muhs, Brian & Vleeming, Sven P., A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents (2005). (15 (P. 13574))
• Lüddeckens, Erich, Papyri, Demotische, Berlin (1982). (no. E23f (P. 13574))
• Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). (no. 44 (P. 13574))
• Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Unerkannte demotische Kornmasse (1987). (464 - 465 (P. 13574))

 

DatasetID	100520
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	45687
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100520 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13574 a - e), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.