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Pap. Berlin P. 15809

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 15809
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) 119 mm | 72 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper as well as right parts are broken off in undetermined extent. On the entire sheet horizontal foldings in narrow intervals (ca. 1,1 cm).
Mounting framed under glass
Comments on Object Palimpsest. On recto (ca. 8 l.) and verso (ca. 7 l.) traces of an anterior text.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Upper part and all line beginnings broken off in undetermined extent. Upper left section lost.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Steile, enge mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. Left (and last?) column not enlarged to the lower margin of the sheet.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines CoI.I: x+10, Col.II: X+2 0
Quantity of Columns 2 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 45 0
Column Height (in mm) 100 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+45 x x+100 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account of priests connected with their income
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
  • documentary | list
Summary of Content List of persons connected with income. Mention of priests entering the sanctuary
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_15809_Rv_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_15809_Rv_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_15809_Rv_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_15809_Rv_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100522
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 45710
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100522 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15809), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.