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Pap. Berlin P. 13453

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 13453
Publication Number SB III 6134 = SB I 5111
Current Location transferred to the Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Comments on Inventory Cairo, SR 3463, J. 43500
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty:
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
Certainty: high
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
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Brugsch, Heinrich
Certainty:

Object

Object Type papyrus | sheet
Dating between -300 and -200
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left, bottom and right, two small fragments loose.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) perpendicular (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) papyrus broken at left, bottom and right.
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, ptolemaic, chancery style 3rd cent.
Comments on Text Layout 4 lines transversa charta on recto. other side: traces of an address?
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4+y 1
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Petition to the king (Enteuxis)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content Enteuxis (petition) from Pertaios, son of Harnouphis, to the king, mentioning a raid by the Ethiopians. Formerly this document was interpreted as a letter concerning military matters, informing the king about the raid of Ethiopians.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text new interpretation of this document as an enteuxis: script transversa charta! on recto. The traces on the back are not aramaic and probably belong to the adress. dating not certain: Ptol. I or II?
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Περταῖος Ἁρνούφιος - ? -
2 ̣ ̣φ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ κατέβησαν Αἰθίοπες καὶ ἐπολιόρκησαν - ? -
3 ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣φ̣ρακτεύω ἐγὼ καὶ δύο ἀδελφοὶ σταθμὸν(?) - ?-
4 ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣σ ̣ν ἐπὶ βοήθειαν καὶ ἀνείλομεν - ?-
y-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
R
1To the king Ptolemaios, Pertaios, son of Ηarnouphis, greeting. ---
2--- Ethiopians came down and besieged ---
3--- I am (fencing?) --- and the two brothers ---
4--- to our aid and we have undertaken/killed? ---
y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
28950 man Pertaios, son of Harnouphis Περταῖος Ἀρνού[φιος] pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) -332 BCE -290 BCE palaeographical dating. possibly Ptolemaios I or II?;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 13132
last Change 29.07.2022
Berlpap 13132
Trismegistos 7199
Papyri.info ddbdp/sb;3;6134
Author BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 13132 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13453), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer.