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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 | |
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| 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. |
