Pap. Berlin P. 13445 E- P. 13448/2

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13445 E- P. 13448/2
Publication Number	TAD D.1.19
Publication Permission Status	no permission for publication necessary
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: medium
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	excavation or purchase Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director) Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1906 and 1907

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Range of Preservation	incomplete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4

Text Content

Modern Title	Letter Fragment
Text Types	documentary documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	Letter fragment with a broken date. The palimpsest dates to Xerxes 15.
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	[...]◦◦[◦]ל◦[...]
2	[...]◦ ב 𐡘𐡘𐡘 𐡘𐡘 ל{מ\|פ}[...]
3	[...] אנה שלחת ל[...]
4	[...]◦שח ◦[...]

Rpal

¹One, maybe two, illegible palimpsest lines.

1	... שנת 𐡛 𐡘𐡘𐡘 𐡘𐡘 חשיארש מלכא ...

¹ One, maybe two, illegible palimpsest lines.

1	[...]◦◦[◦]L◦[...
2	[...]◦ on the 5th of {M\|P}[...]
3	[... I] sent to[...]
4	[...]◦ŠḤ ◦[...]

Rpal

1	[... year ]15 of Xe⸢r⸣[xes the king ...]

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
41765	man	Xerxes	חשיארש	Aramaic, Imperial

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Xerxes I	15			-524 BCE -475 BCE	Palimpsest date 470, but over written text date uncertain.;

Pictures

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BER_P_13445E_IR_V_001

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BER_P_13445E_V_001

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Literature

Porten, Bezalel & Yardeni, Ada, Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, 4: Ostraca & assorted inscriptions. (D1.19)

DatasetID	306557
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	89612
Author	James D. Moore
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 306557 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13445 E- P. 13448/2), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.