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unpublished |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 |
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| Column Height (in mm) |
0 |
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| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
0 |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
account of land |
| Ancient Archives |
Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | account | horizontal format
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| 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
People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 36765 |
(unknown) |
..?.. (P 13488 dem 2) |
..?.. |
(not identified) |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| 26th dynasty |
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|
-664 BCE -525 BCE |
Dating by Palimpsest: newer text in Aramaic.; |
Pictures
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| P_13488-Pl-B_Dem_R_001 |
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| Reserved Copyright |
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| P_13488-Pl-B_Dem_V_001 |
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Literature
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Cowley, Arthur Ernest, Aramaic Papyri of the fifth Century B. C. (1957). (22 (Aramaic only))
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Porten, Bezalel & Yardeni, Ada, Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, 3: Literature, accounts, lists. (C 3.15 (p. 234).)
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Sachau, Eduard, Aramäische Papyrus und Ostraka aus einer jüdischen Militärkolonie zu Elephantine. Altorientalische Sprachdenkmäler des 5. Jahrhunderts vor Chr. (1911). (17-20 (short notes by W. Spiegelberg on the Demotic))
| 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. |
