Pap. Berlin P. 13504

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13504
Publication Number	P.Eleph. 3
Current Location	Cairo, Egyptian Museum (transferred to the museum in 1912)
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:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director) Certainty:
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
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Minutoli, Heinrich von Certainty: high

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)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	double document; only the first part transcribed
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, ptolemaic cursive
Comments on Text Layout	Verso with signatures of witnesses and seals
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8+8	3
Quantity of Columns	1	4
Height of Line / Letter

Modern Title	Contract concerning the payment of "tropheia"
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary \| contract
Summary of Content	contract concerning the payment of tropheia, interpreted as mariage contract, contract with a concubine or as a release of a slave. The Syrian woman named Elaphion pays an amount of money to Antipatros, a Greek man probably of military context, as tropheia; with witnesses and seals. Almost the same contract was made out by Elaphion some 7 months earlier to Pantarkes: = P.Eleph. 4.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	content of contract not clear yet
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Woman Man
Comment on Gender	woman party in contract
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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1	βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου (ἔτους) μα ἐφʼ ἱερέως Εὐρέου τοῦ Προίτου τῶι γ (ἔτει) μηνὸς Ἀρτεμισίου
2	κατέβαλεν Ἐλάφιον Σύρα μετὰ κυρίου Παντάρκους Ἀντιπάτρωι Ἀρκάδι τροφεῖα ὑπὲρ αὑτῆς ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) τ.
3	μὴ ἐξέστω δὲ Ἀντιπάτρωι ἐπελθεῖν ἐπʼ Ἐλάφιον εἰσπράττοντι τροφεῖα ἢ καταδουλούμενον παρευρέσει
4	μηδεμιᾶι μηδʼ ἄλλωι ὑπὲρ Ἀντιπάτρου. εἰ δὲ μὴ ἥ τʼ ἔφοδος αὐτοῖς ἄκυρος ἔστω καὶ ἀποτεισάτω
5	Ἀντίπατρος Ἐλαφίωι ἢ τῶι ὑπὲρ Ἐλαφίου πορευομένωι ἐπίτιμον (δραχμὰς) Γ. ἡ δέ συγγραφὴ ἥδε κυρία ἔστω
6	πανταχῆι οὗ ἂν ἐπιφέρηι Ἐλάφιον κατʼ Ἀντιπάτρου ἢ ἄλλος ὑπὲρ Ἐλαφίου πράσσων καθάπερ Ἐλαφίωι
7	γέγραπται. μάρτυρες Παγκράτης Ἀρκάς, Καφισίας Φωκεύς, Δίφιλος Φωκεύς, Ἐπίνικος Χαλκιδεύς,
8	Ἀθηναγόρας Ἀλεξανδρεύς, Ξενοκλῆς Ῥόδιος.

1	In the 41st year of the reign of Ptolemy, Eureas the son of Proitos being priest in his 3rd year, in the month Artemisios.
2	Elaphion, a Syrian woman, her legal guardian being Pantarkes, has paid to Antipatros the Arcadian as support for herself 300 drachmas of silver.
3	Let it not be permitted to Antipatros nor to anyone else acting for Antipatros to bring suit against Elaphion in order to exact support or enslave her on
4	any pretext. Or else let their proceedings be invalid and let Antipatros pay back
5	to Elaphion or to him who acts for Elaphion a penalty of 3000 drachmas. Let this contract be valid
6	everywhere, wherever Elaphion or another acting for Elaphion may produce it against Antipatros, exactly as
7	written by Elaphion. Witnesses: Pankrates the Arcadian, Kaphisias the Phokian, Diphilos the Phokian, Epinikos the Chalcidian,
8	Athenagoras the Alexandrian, Xenokles the Rhodian.

Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4108	man	Antipatros (P.Eleph. 3)	Ἀντίπατρος	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios I Soter	41	Artemisios		-282 January 12 BCE -282 February 10 BCE	date in text;

Boswinkel, E. & David, Martin & van Groningen, B. A., BL 5: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band V (1969). (27)
Grzybek, E., Die griechische Konkubine und ihre „Mitgift“ (P.Eleph. 3 und 4) (1989). (206-212)
Pestman, Pieter Willem & Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Hoogendijk, Francisca A.J. & Kruit, Nico & Verhoogt, A.M.F.W., BL 9: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band IX (1995). (78)
Porten, Bezalel, The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change (1996). (D5)
Rubensohn, Otto & Schubart, Wilhelm & Spiegelberg, Wilhelm, Elephantine-Papyri (1907). (no. 3)
Scholl, Reinhold, Corpus der Ptolemäischen Sklaventexte (1990). (39a)
Vandorpe, K., Seals in and on the Papyri of Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Egypt, in: Boussac - Invernizzi, Archives et Sceaux 259 Nr. 7. (259, nr. 7)

DatasetID	307141
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	03737
Trismegistos	5838
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.eleph;;3intdupl
Author	Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307141 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13504), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer.