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Pap. Berlin P. 15646

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 15646
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) 40 mm | 85 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper as well as the lateral parts are broken off in undetermined extent. The right edge of the preserved section is heavily frayed.
Mounting framed under glass
Comments on Object 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) Upper part broken off in undetermined extent. All line beginnings and endings lost.
Script, Primary Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Sorgfältige und gut lesbare früh- bis mitteldemotischen Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. With broad lower margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+2 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 85 0
Column Height (in mm) 20 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+85+y x x+20 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title fragment of a letter mentioning a lesonis priest
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | horizontal format
Summary of Content Letter mentioning a lesonis priest before whom the sender should arrive.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
x+1
x+2 ı͗w=w ḏd mt tj ı͗w=w gm=s ı͗w bn-pw=y
x+3 ı͗w=w (r) ḏı͗.t ꜥḥꜥ=y ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr pꜣ mr-šn
x+1 ⸢..?..⸣
x+2 [///] if it is said something here. They will let her know that I have not not [///]
x+3 [///] ..?.. If they will cause me to arrive before the lesonis priest [///]
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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
Late period or Early Ptolemaic period -664 BCE -222 BCE ;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 100622
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46532
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100622 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15646), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.