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Pap. Berlin P. 13518

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 13518
Publication Number P.Eleph. 12
Current Location Cairo, Egyptian Museum (transferred to the museum in 1912)
Comments on Inventory Cairo, EM JE 39465, SR 2942
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

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
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
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Minutoli, Heinrich von
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Dating between -222 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete

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) complete
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, ptolemaic, hand unknown
Comments on Text Layout address on Verso, recto transversa charta
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 1
Quantity of Columns 1
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter from Euphronios to Milon
Ancient Archives praktor archive | Milon
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Letter from Euphronios to Milon about men who have attacked Milon and which should be put in jail by the policeman.
Location of Composition Thebes-East Upper Egypt, 4th nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok photo link in berlpap
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1Εὐφρόνιος Μίλωνι χαίρειν. καθάπερ ὤιου δεῖν, γεγράφαμεν Πλειστάρχωι
2τῶι φυλακίτηι περὶ τῶν παροινησάντων σε ἀποθέσθαι αὐτοὺς εἰς τὴν φυλακήν.
3ὡς ἂν οὖν ἀναγνῶις τὴν ἐπιστολὴν παράδειξον αὐτῶι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους
4ἐπιμελῶς.
5ἔρρωσο. (ἔτους) κε Ἐπέφι α
V
6
Μίλωνι

R
1Euphronios to Milon greetings. As you believed it to be necessary we have written to Pleistarchos,
2the policeman, about the men who have attacked you, that he will put them in jail.
3When you read this letter, point the men out to him
4carefully.
5Farewell. Year 25, Epeiph 1.
V
6To Milon.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4037 man Euphronios praktor Ꜣwprnys = Εὐφρόνιος Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 25 Epeiph 01 -222 August 14 BCE date in text;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307153
last Change 29.07.2022
Berlpap 03753
Trismegistos 5846
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph;;12
Author Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307153 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13518), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer.