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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15607 |
Current Location | magazine |
Publication Permission Status | (unknown) |
Publication Status | published |
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 Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 175 mm | 62 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. One minor hole and one horizontal break in the sheet. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
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) | Partly faded. On top only few lines broken off. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige, doch relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift, mit einigen wenigen frühdemotischen Wörtern." (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, with asmall lower margin. Verso: The text was placed onto the upper half of the (preserved) sheet, with a small upper margin. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | x+11 | 5 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 60 | 60 |
Column Height (in mm) | 165 | 80 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 60 x x+165 | 60 x 80 |
Modern Title | letter with complaint regarding a missing oracle inquiry |
Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter with complaint of Peteese, son of Pete-[///], that the the addressee of this letter has not asked the oracle of Isis for advice on behalf of the Peteese. Renewed request for information with specifications of the questions to be presented to the oracle. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1 For the reading cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 51. Reading variant Zauzich, P. Berl. Eleph. 1 (1978): „die Du deswegen unternommen hast“. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
8090 | not applicable | (no further persons mentioned) | (no further persons mentỈoned) | (none) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) | 03 | Phaophi | 30 | -332 BCE -222 BCE | ; |
DatasetID | 100545 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46514 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100545 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15607), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |