Pap. Berlin P. 15806

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 15806
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	registered as existing during revision (1967)
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned

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, dark
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	143 mm \| 102 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. The upper right edge is lost, several holes in the upper left section.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	Palimpsest. On recto and verso traces of an anterior text, readable e. g. "ḥḏ 2."

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)	Recto: Upper part broken off in undetermined extent. First line beginnings lost. Verso: Last line beginnings lost.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Große, flüchtige, aber relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. The text shows a small and inequal right margin, last line short, with one sign stretched to the lower edge. Verso: The text was placed onto the upper part of the sheet, with broad right and upper margins. The lower, today not preserved part remains presumably uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+11	7
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	95	85
Column Height (in mm)	135	100
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	95 x x+135	85 x 100

Modern Title	letter with unclear content
Ancient Archives	private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [lost])
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Letter with unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. In a postscriptum mention of two bread loaves which are also mentioned in the contemporary Pap. Berlin P.23614.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8060	not applicable	(No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text)	(No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text)	(none)

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	18	Mecheir	29	-367 April 21 BCE	same date: Pap. Berlin P. 23614;

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DatasetID	100549
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46553
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100549 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15806), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.