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Pap. Berlin P. 13488 [Demotic palimpsest old]

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 13488 [Demotic palimpsest old]
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory See FM ID 306605 for the Aramaic.
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished

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:
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]

Object

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Papyrus roll consisting of 7 preserved sheets. The 7th and last sheet is preserved at its half only . Large holes, especially on sheets 1-3. To sheet 2 belongs Pap. Berlin P. 23101, but without direct joint.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Script, Primary Early Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Layout undetectable due to the fragmentary condition.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 0 12+y
Quantity of Columns 0 3+y
Line Lenght (in mm) 0
Column Height (in mm) 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account of land
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account | horizontal format
Summary of Content Part of an account, list of land. On recto and verso erased remains of an accout, but unclear wheather all parts belonging together. Context unclear due to the fragmentary condition.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: land owner - identifier of woman: [///]

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
x+III:1 pꜣ ı͗p ,,?..
x+III:2 tꜣ mꜣy Tꜣ-mgm(?)
x+III:3 tꜣ mꜣy Ḥr-wḏꜣ [_]
x+III:4 tꜣ mꜣy.w Bḥd1Proposal by G Vittmann. [_]
x+III:5 tꜣ mꜣy Tꜣ-ꜥlw.t [_]
x+III:6 tꜣ mꜣy
x+III:7 number
x+III:8 sꜣ Pa-Ḥr 2SPIEGELBERG in SACHAU, Aramäische Papyrus und Ostraka, 85, assumed the reading “the island of Syene”.
x+III:9 ..?..
x+III:10 tꜣy=f mw.t [_]
x+III:11 Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ (sꜣ) Pa-rtꜣ(?)
x+III:12 Wr (sꜣ) Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ

1 Proposal by G Vittmann.
2 SPIEGELBERG in SACHAU, Aramäische Papyrus und Ostraka, 85, assumed the reading “the island of Syene”.
R
x+III:1 The account of ⸢..?..⸣ [///]
x+III:2 The lowland of Ta-mgm(?)[///].
x+III:3 The lowland of Haryothes [_] [///].
x+III:4 The lowland of Edfou [_] [///].
x+III:5 The lowland of Talous [_] [///].
x+III:6 Thelow land of ..?..[///]
x+III:7 ⸢..?.. number⸣[///]
x+III:8 ⸢..?..⸣, son of Payris ⸢..?..⸣[///]
x+III:9 [///]⸢..?..⸣[///]
x+III:10 ⸢..?..⸣, his mother [_] [///].
x+III:11 [Pe]laias, (son) of Paretis(?) [///]
x+III:12 Or⸢..?..⸣, son of Pelais, ⸢..?..⸣[///]
P_13488-Pl-B_Dem_R_001
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P_13488-Pl-B_Dem_V_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
36765 (unknown) ..?.. (P 13488 dem 2) ..?.. (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
26th dynasty -664 BCE -525 BCE Dating by Palimpsest: newer text in Aramaic.;

 

Pictures

P_13488-Pl-B_Dem_R_001
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P_13488-Pl-B_Dem_V_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 308415
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 58097
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308415 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13488 [Demotic palimpsest old]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.