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Pap. Berlin P. 15521

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 15521
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) 346 mm | 92 mm | mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Some minor holes and frayings in the upper section and at the right edge. On the verso a small vertical strip is detectable which was teared off for the wrapping of the entire roll.
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) Line endings damaged.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Geübte, relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift mit breiten Querstrichen." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Very wide line pitch. Recto: The text was placed onto the upper half of the sheet, with a small right margin, and a broad upper one. The lower half remains uninscribed. Verso: Second line turned at 180° upside down.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 10 2
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 80 80
Column Height (in mm) 160 10
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 80 x 160 80 x 10

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter concerning payment of money
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter of Belles to Eschnompmetis, son of Snebonychos, concerning payment and receipt of two silver deben. Without any polite formulas.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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1Ns-H̱nm-(pꜣ-)mtr sꜣ Ns-nb-ꜥnḫ pꜣ mr-šn H̱nm
2ḏı͗=k ı͗n=w nꜣy šꜥ.t.w sḏm=y nꜣy md.wt
3r.hb=k n.ı͗m=w hb=k (r-)dbꜣ pꜣy ḥḏ (dbn) 2
4ḏd ḏı͗ Tqy 1 Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): Tq⸢rṱ⸣. The name maybe identical with the name Tgrṱry in Pap. Berlin P. 13579 line 6. ḏı͗=y s
5šn=y Tyqy 2Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): Tjqrṱ. The name maybe identical with the name Tgrṱry in Pap. Berlin P. 13579 line 6. ḏd=f n=y mtw=k
6pꜣ ı͗.ı͗r-hb n=y n.ı͗m=w r ḏı͗.t s n=y nꜣy ı͗.ı͗r=y
7rḫ ı͗r=y s šp=w (s) n ı͗p ẖn
8nꜣ ḥḏ r.hb=k n=y n.ı͗m=w hb=w n Nḫṱ-Mn
9sꜣ Sbk-ḥtp nty šn r ḥ.t-nṯr Yb
10sẖ Br n ḥsb.t 18 ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 28

1 Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): Tq⸢rṱ⸣. The name maybe identical with the name Tgrṱry in Pap. Berlin P. 13579 line 6.
2 Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): Tjqrṱ. The name maybe identical with the name Tgrṱry in Pap. Berlin P. 13579 line 6.
V
vso 1ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr Ns-H̱nm-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Ns-nb-ꜥnḫ
vso 2pꜣ mr-šn H̱nm
1(To) Eschnom(p)metis, son of Snebonychos, the lesonis of Chnoum.
2You have ordererd these letters to be brought. I have heard these [matters]
3concerning which you sent to me 1For translation cf. also Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005).. You have sent on account of this 2 silver (deben)
4the following: Tiqi has caused me to give it.
5I have asked Tiqi. [_] He has told me:
6‘It is you who applealed to me concerning this matter to give it 2Scil. the amount of money. to me.’ 3Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): „… dass Du es bist, 6| den sie zu mir geschickt hat, um sie (die Geldbeträge) mir zu geben.“ That what I could do,
7I have done it. They 4Scil. the 2 deben. are redeemed among
8the amounts of money concerning which you have sent to me. 5Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): „die Du mir geschickt hast.“ They have sent to Nechtminis,
9son of Sochotes, who inspects in the temple of Elephantine.
10Written by Belles in the 18th regnal year, 28th Thoth.
vso 1To Eschnompmetis [_] son of Snebonychos,
vso 2[the] lesonis of Chnoum.

1 For translation cf. also Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005).
2 Scil. the amount of money.
3 Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): „… dass Du es bist, 6| den sie zu mir geschickt hat, um sie (die Geldbeträge) mir zu geben.“
4 Scil. the 2 deben.
5 Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): „die Du mir geschickt hast.“
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Yb (places.xml#s3)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    9890 man Eschnoumpmetis, son of Snebonychos (carrier of Ra, Vorsteher der heiligen Binden) alle zusammenfügen. cf. 8066, wohl nicht derselbe! Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mtr sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-nb-ꜥnḫ pre-Coptic Egyptian

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Ptolemaios IV Philopator 18 Thoth 28 -205 November 5 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

     

    Pictures

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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 100542
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 46503
    Author Jan Moje
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 100542 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15521), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.