Pap. Berlin P. 15519

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 15519
Current Location	magazine
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)	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)	228 mm \| 66 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	The upper left edge is heavily damaged.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	The papyrus is still mounted on paper (05/2016).

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)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Some minor text losses.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Geübte und gut lesbare mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the sheet, without lateral margins, but broad upper and lower margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	14	1
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	55	0
Column Height (in mm)	160	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	55 x 160	0

Text Content

Modern Title	Letter concerning a complaint on requested but not yet done work
Ancient Archives	praktor archive \| Milon
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Letter without mention of the sender, containing a response on a complaint that the sender had not done a requested work. The sender assures that orders will be executed in the future.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	Gleicher Schreiber Pap Berlin P. 15519, 23622
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	ḏd n=y Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ hyn
2	md.t ḏd hb n=y Ns-H̱nm-pꜣ-mtr
3	n.ı͗m=w wn-nꜣ.w nꜣ dḥr ḏı͗.t pꜣ rwš ¹According to Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978), this amendment is not sure. Due to space reasons a reading šm=s is provieded. Cf. Pap. Berlin P.15527, l. 11. Martin, Demotic Texts (1996) C9 proposes „[anger]“.
4	r ḥꜣ.ṱ=k ḏd bn-ı͗w=y ı͗r
5	pꜣy=k ꜥš-sḥn n tꜣ nty ı͗w=s (r) ı͗y nb
6	ı͗.ı͗r=f ḏd n=y nꜣ md.w(t) rn=w m-sꜣ
7	ḏd nꜣ md.wt rn=w r.ı͗r=y n
8	Pꜣ-s-n-mṯk sꜣ Pa-H̱nm r ḏrꜥ pꜣy=k
9	rd n.ı͗m=w ꜥs-m(y) mn
10	nꜣ nty pḥ n-ḏr.ṱ=y ḥꜣ.t pꜣ hrw wn-nꜣ.w
11	bn-ı͗w=y ꜣbḫ r pꜣ smt
12	n nꜣy my hb=w n=y n tꜣ nty ı͗w=w
13	wḫꜣ=s sẖ n ḥsb.t 19
14	ı͗bd 2 ꜣḫ.t sw 1

¹ According to Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978), this amendment is not sure. Due to space reasons a reading šm=s is provieded. Cf. Pap. Berlin P.15527, l. 11. Martin, Demotic Texts (1996) C9 proposes „[anger]“.

vso 1

ı͗.ı͗r ḥr Ns-H̱nm-pꜣ-mtr

1	Thus Hartophnachthes has spoken to me some
2	things: ‘Eschnompmetis has sent to me
3	concerning them.’ The sad matters brought [trouble]
4	in your heart because I will not
5	fulfill your instruction in everything, which will come.
6	He ¹Structure and translation of the following passages after Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae. But see Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C9.(scil. Hartophnachthes) said the matters in question, after
7	I have said the matters in question to
8	Psammetichos, son of Pachnoumis to encourage your
9	attorney with it. Behold, there are no (letters)
10	which reached me before today. I would
11	not have forgotten the like
12	of these. One may send to me concerning that which
13	is desired. Written in the 19th regnal year,
14	1st of Paophi.
vso 1	To [_] [Eschnompmetis].

¹ Structure and translation of the following passages after Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae. But see Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), Nr. C9.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
10250	man	Eschnoumpmetis (P. 15519)	Ns-H̱nm-mtr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	19	Phaophi	01	-229 November 14 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

DatasetID	100541
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46502
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100541 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15519), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.