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Pap. Berlin P. 15613

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 15613
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory joining: Pap. Berlin P. 15606, Pap. Berlin P. 15613, Pap. Berlin P. 23569 + Pap. Berlin P. 23652
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
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non		 between 15 12 1906 and 15 12 1906
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
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 1906
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 141 mm | 311 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The right part and the lower part are broken off in undetermined extent. Some larger holes on the right side. Several breaks in the sheet. Measurements of the entire papyrus: Height: 20,5 cm. Width 34,5 cm.
Mounting framed under glass
Restoration Activities Restaurierung abgeschlossen
Comments on Object According to the inventory "Abschrift und Deutung von W. Erichsen" existing.

Text Basic Information

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) Line beginnings lost. At the upper and lower edges damages with text losses.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Flüchtige, mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. All columns right-aligned, separated from eac other by large distance. One column on the recto rotated by 180°.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+11, x+12,x+3, 11+y 9+y, 11+y, 11+y, 4
Quantity of Columns 4 4
Line Lenght (in mm) 310 305
Column Height (in mm) 125 115
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 310 x 125 305 x 115

 

Text Content

Modern Title account of delivery of bread and grain to the sanctuary
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Account of delivery of baked bread loafs and grain to the sanctuary for a period of 19 days.
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_15613_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_15613_V
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
865 man Espmetis, son of Espneti-hetnetjer (carrier-of-Ra and lesonis) Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ Ns-pꜢ-nty-(n-)ḥ.t-nṯr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty 10 Phaophi -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_15613_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_15613_V
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100762
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 45729
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100762 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15613), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.