Pap. Berlin P. 13453

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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

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 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.

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

Modern Title	Petition to the king (Enteuxis)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
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

Transcription

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1	βασιλεῖ 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	-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

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

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?;

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Bilabel, Friedrich, BL 2,2: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band II, 2 (1933). (118)
Fischer-Bovet, Christelle, Les Égytiens Dans les Forces Armées des Terre et de Mer sous les trois premiers Lagides. (1673-74)
Porten, Bezalel, The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change (1996). (D7)
Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Verhoogt, A. M. F. W. & Kruit, Nico, BL 11: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band XI (2002). (196)
Sachau, Eduard, Aramäische Papyrus und Ostraka aus einer jüdischen Militärkolonie zu Elephantine. Altorientalische Sprachdenkmäler des 5. Jahrhunderts vor Chr. (1911). (142, no. 48)

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.