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Pap. Berlin P. 15814

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 15814
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 find (unspecified)
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) (unknown)
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 (unknown)
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 0 and 0
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (unknown)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 137 mm | 194 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper and right parts are broken off in undetermined extent. One larger hole in the sheet.
Mounting framed under glass
Restoration Activities Restaurierung abgeschlossen

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) Upper part, and line beginnings of col x+1 recto resp. line endings of col. 2 verso broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Flüchtige, relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. Text of columns right-aligned, line length varying. Columns with large distance to each other. Very broad lateral margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+8 Z.; x+10 x+9 Z.; x+8
Quantity of Columns 2 2
Line Lenght (in mm) 125 105+y
Column Height (in mm) 115 120
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+125 x x+115 105+y x 120

 

Text Content

Modern Title account concerning management of land
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Account concerning management of land. Mention of names, amounts of money, and units of aruras.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_15814_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_15814_V
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
9535 man Pamenos Pa-mnḥ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

P_15814_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_15814_V
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100523
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 45711
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100523 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15814), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.