Pap. Berlin P. 15527

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 15527
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)	356 mm \| 82 mm \| mm
Rotation	around horizontal axis (top to bottom)
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Damages of the upper right edge. Some small horizonal breaks in the sheet.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	Palimpsest. On the recto as well as on the verso traces of an anterior text.

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 line endings slightly damaged.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Geübte, sehr flüssige und überwiegend gut lesbare mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Recto: Medium line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire sheet, with a broad upper margin only. Verso: Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire sheet, with broad upper and lower margins. Address line placed onto the lower uninscribed section.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	23	19
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	75	75
Column Height (in mm)	330	315
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	75 x 330	75 x 315

Text Content

Modern Title	letter to priests who fled from Philae to Nubia
Ancient Archives	unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Horos, son of Kolluthos
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Letter of Horos, son of Kolluthes, to Osoroeris, Spotous and Chnoummachis, three priests of Chnoum-Haroeris. The sender has not met the addressees on his journey to Philae, because the they have fled to Nubia. This is possibly to be seen in connection with the political disturbances during the reign on Ptolemaios V. Epiphanes. The senders are given order to return to their temple on Philae.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

1	ḫrw Ḥr sꜣ Krḏ ¹Reading variant Erich Lüddekcens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1980-2000), 806: „Harpkolluthos“, Ḥr-pꜣ-krḏ. Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). The reading of the name Horos of the sender if this letter fits with the line Vso 17, where a Horos is mentioned as the writer. m-bꜣḥ
2	Ns-pꜣy=w-tꜣ.wı͗ H̱nm-m-ꜣḫ.t Wsı͗r-wr
3	nꜣ wꜥb.w Ḥr-wr ı͗ ḏı͗ Pꜣ-Rꜥ
4	qy pꜣy=w ꜥḥꜥ ḫpr ı͗bd 3 pr.t sw 17
5	tw=y ı͗w.w ²For the Reading cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). r Pr-ı͗w-rq
6	ı͗rm Gm=w-Ḥp sꜣ Pa-rṱ Pa-tꜣ.wı͗
7	sꜣ Pa-ḫy Pa-nfr sꜣ Gm=w-Ḥp
8	ḏd ı͗w=n wšd ı͗w=n
9	ꜥḥꜥ ı͗rm=ṯn ḏd=w n=n
10	šm=w n=w r rsy r pꜣ tꜣ nḥs
11	ı͗n šm=s r ḥꜣ.ṱ=ṯn
12	ḏd bn-ı͗w=n ı͗r pꜣ rwš
13	tꜣ nty ı͗w=ṯn ẖn=s ḥw
14	r-ḥr=ṯn ı͗w=n snt n H̱nm
15	n ḥw r-ḥr=ṯn ꜥn s.t-dbꜣ
16	nb r.šp=n n pꜣ ı͗wn
17	ı͗.ı͗r=n ı͗r=w (r-)dbꜣ nꜣ md.wt
18	rn=w r ḏı͗.t wḏꜣ nꜣy=n nṯr.w
19	ı͗.ı͗r pꜣy bk pḥ r.r=k ³Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): {r-r=k} &amp;amp;amp;lt;r-ḥr-ṯn>.
20	ı͗.mn r pꜣy=ṯn ı͗rpy
21	pꜣy=ṯn ṯꜣw my wḏꜣ=f
22	m-ı͗r ı͗r wš n ı͗y r Pr-wꜥb
23	n pꜣ grḥ m-ı͗r ḏı͗.t

¹ Reading variant Erich Lüddekcens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1980-2000), 806: „Harpkolluthos“, Ḥr-pꜣ-krḏ. Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). The reading of the name Horos of the sender if this letter fits with the line Vso 17, where a Horos is mentioned as the writer.
² For the Reading cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005).
³ Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): {r-r=k} &amp;amp;lt;r-ḥr-ṯn>.

vso 1	ẖtb ṱ pꜣ nṯr
vso 2	r wꜥ gy šn=y
vso 3	Nꜣ-nfr-ı͗b-Rꜥ pꜣ ḥm-nṯr H̱nm (r-)dbꜣ
vso 4	pꜣ wḏꜣy nꜣ ı͗rpy.w
vso 5	mn ḏꜣ nb ı͗.ı͗r=y pḥ
vso 6	r Swn n rhy n sw 15 ı͗r=y
vso 7	nꜣ md.w(t) n Swn n sw 16
vso 8	bn-pw=y srf r ı͗y r ꜥḥꜥ
vso 9	ı͗rm=ṯn ı͗w=y ḫrp
vso 10	r ı͗y r Pr-(ı͗w-)rq n pꜣ hrw ḏd
vso 11	ı͗w=y (r) ꜥḥꜥ ı͗rm=ṯn ı͗w=s
vso 12	(n) ḥꜣ.ṱ=y ı͗.ı͗r=ṯn ı͗p
vso 13	n.ı͗m=n r ḫyr
vso 14	nꜣ-wḏꜣ ¹For the transcription cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): nꜣ-nfr. ḥꜣ.ṱ=n ı͗.ı͗r
vso 15	pꜣ nṯr (n) ḥw r-ḥr=ṯn ı͗.ı͗r=ṯn
vso 16	nw r pꜣy bk m-ı͗r wrr
vso 17	r pꜣy=ṯn ı͗rpy sẖ Ḥr
vso 18	ḥsb.t 18 ı͗bd 3 pr.t sw 17
vso 19	ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr nꜣ wꜥb.w H̱nm

¹ For the transcription cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): nꜣ-nfr.

1	Voice of Horos, son of Kolluthos before
2	Spotous, Chnoummachis (and) Osor[oeris],
3	the wab priests of Haroeris. Oh may Pre
4	cause their lifetime to be long! The 17th of Phamenoth happened,
5	and I came to Philae
6	with Komoapis, son of Parates, (with) Patus,
7	son of Pachois, (and with) Panouphis, son of Komoapis,
8	to worship you (and)
9	to visit you. We are told:
10	‘They traveled south to the land of the Nubians.’
11	Did you not realize,
12	that we worry
13	about the (situation) in which you are much more
14	than you (by yourself?)? We fear Chnoum
15	even more than you! Every calamity
16	which we received on the voyage,
17	it was on account of the matters
18	in question, in order to keep our gods safe.
19	Once this letter reaches you,
20	come (back) to your temple!
21	Your breath: May it be thriving!
22	Do not stop coming to the Abaton
23	in the night! Do not let
vso 1	the god penalize ¹For translation, cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005). me
vso 2	in some manner! I have queried
vso 3	Nepherpres, the priest of Chnoum, about
vso 4	the well-being of the temples.
vso 5	There is no disadvantage. I came
vso 6	to Syene when it was evening of the 15th day. I finished
vso 7	the matters in Syene on the 16th day.
vso 8	I have not lost time to come and to
vso 9	meet with you, rising early
vso 10	to come to Philae today
vso 11	and to meet with you, because
vso 12	it was close to my heart. (But) you consider
vso 13	us to be enemies!
vso 14	Our heart is more open towards
vso 15	the god than towards you. Once you
vso 16	see this letter, do not delay
vso 17	to come (back) to your temple! Written by Horos
vso 18	in the 18th regnal year, 17th of Phamenoth.
vso 19	To [_] the wab priests of Chnoum.

¹ For translation, cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005).

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Places (read out from edition)

Pr-ı͗w-rq (places.xml#s15)

(places.xml#d52)

pꜣ tꜣ nḥs (places.xml#s149)

Swn (places.xml#s8)

Pr-(ı͗w-)rq (places.xml#s15)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
10270	man	Chnoummachis (P. 15527)	H̱nm-m-Ꜣḫ.t	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios V Epiphanes	18	Phamenoth	17	-187 April 19 BCE	Dating by content (according to Zauzich);

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Literature

DatasetID	100543
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46508
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100543 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15527), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.