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Pap. Berlin P. 15701

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 15701
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)	202 mm | 124 mm | mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The right as well as the upper parts are broken off in undetermined extent.
Mounting	framed under glass

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)	Left and upper part broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Flüchtige, auffallend kleine, dicke früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. Recto: Broad lower margin. Verso: On the left side an unsteady vertical line on the entire height of the fragment.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+17	x+3+y+4
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	95	x+70
Column Height (in mm)	165	x+45
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	x+95 x x+165	x+70 x x+45

 

Text Content

Modern Title	account of the delivery(?) of bread emmer
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 the delivery(?) of bread (recto) and of emmer (verso).
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
9525	man	Es[///] (P. 15701)	Ns-[///] (P. 15701)	pre-Coptic Egyptian
9520	(unknown)	Sepedendet	Spd.t-n-d.t	pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Late period or Early Ptolemaic period				-664 BCE -222 BCE	;

 

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Literature

• den Brinker, Anna Adriana & Muhs, Brian & Vleeming, Sven P., A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents (2005). (16)
• Lüddeckens, Erich, Papyri, Demotische, Berlin (1982). (no. E23t)
• Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). (no. 149)
• Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Unerkannte demotische Kornmasse (1987). (469)

 

DatasetID	100521
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	45708
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100521 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15701), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.