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Pap. Berlin P. 15638

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 15638
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory registered as existing during revision (1958)
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, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 102 mm | 55 mm | mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation The upper part and all edges damaged, several holes in the sheet.
Mounting framed under glass
Comments on Object The papyrus was cut off from a larger, already lettered sheet. The line visible below the line 8 of the new text should belong to this primary text. According to the inventory "Abschrift und Deutung von W. Erichsen" existing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) perpendicular (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Complete.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Kleine, wenig sorgfältige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the sheet, with medium upper, lower and left marigns, without right margin. The signs at the lower edge belong to a former text on the original, larger sheet.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines Col.1: 8; Col. 2: 6 0
Quantity of Columns 2 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 45 0
Column Height (in mm) 75 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 45 x 75 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title List with different materials as oil, resin or wood
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | account
  • documentary | account | vertical format
  • documentary | will/testament
Summary of Content List with oil, resin, wood, rubber and probably incense.
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_15638_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_15638_V
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

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)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_15638_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_15638_V
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100621
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 45706
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100621 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15638), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.