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Pap. Berlin P. 15528

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 15528
Current Location magazine
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, dark
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 189 mm | 77 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper as well as the lower part are broken off in undetermined extent. Several small holes along the foldings.
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 verso/recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Upper and lower part broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Flüchtige, jedoch relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, without lateral margins. Verso: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, without lateral margins, but with a broad upper margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+14+y 11+y
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 65 65
Column Height (in mm) 180 165+y
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 65 x x+180+y 65 x 165+y

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter with request of barley due to upcoming food shortage
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter with a request to send barley from a certain domain, because of upcoming food shortage at the resting place of the sender.
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_15528_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_15528_V
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) -332 BCE -222 BCE Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

P_15528_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_15528_V
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100544
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46509
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100544 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15528), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.