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Pap. Berlin P. 13555

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 13555
Publication Number BGU VI 1246
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

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:
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non		 between 25 12 1906 and 25 12 1906
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
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1906 and 1906
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty:

Object

Object Type papyrus | sheet
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 197 mm | 141 mm | mm
Dating between -299 and -200
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top, surface damaged

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Text-Localization, Addendum Recto: Demotic; Verso: Greek
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto) and perpendicular (verso)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Verso: broken at top, surface damaged
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, clumsy ptolemaic cursive, hand unknown
Comments on Text Layout It is not sure, that the two sides have anything to do with each other!
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 28
Quantity of Columns 1
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Private copy of a petition
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | legal document
Summary of Content Private copy or draft of a petition concerning the repayment of a loan; not complete: beginning and end missing.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok the two sides might not be connected, since the back contains a draft or copy of a petition. the empty back side of the demotic papyrus might have been used for this copy.
Multilingualism Bilingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
V
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1-?- ἐνεχύρο̣[ι]ς̣ κα̣ὶ̣
x+2συνγραφαῖς. καὶ γὰρ περ̣ὶ τούτων πυ-
x+3θομένου αὐτοῦ παρʼ ἐμοῦ εἰ δυνα̣ί-
x+4μην πο̣ρί̣σαι αὐτῶ̣ι̣ ταῦτα, ἐφʼ ὧι
x+5κατὰ κοινὸν τοὺς τόκους 1 corr. ex τουους ἐκ τοῦ
x+6κατὰ λόγον ἑκάτερ̣ος ἡμῶν παρὰ
x+7τοῦ Βιήγχιος λήμ̣ψεται, μέχρι
x+8 ὧν ἂν χ̣ρ̣όνων καὶ τὰ κεφάλαια
x+9προελώμεθα ἀπ̣ο̣κομίσασθαι 2 corr. ex [α]π̣ο̣κομισεσθαι
x+10συνεχώρησα δώσειν, ἃ καὶ ἐπι-
x+11τάξαντος αὐτοῦ παρηρίθμη-
x+12σα τοῖς περὶ τὸν Βιῆγχιν
x+13συνιστορούντων ἑκάστοις
x+14τούτων τῶν τε διασαφου-
x+15μένων ἀδελφῶν μου καὶ ἔτι
x+16τῆς μητρὸς ἡμῶν. νυνὶ
x+17δὲ τοῦ πατρὸς μετηλλαχότος
x+18τὸν βίον πρὶν ἀποκομίσασθαι
x+19ἡμᾶς παρὰ τοῦ Βιήγχι[ο]ς τὰ
x+20δάνεια καὶ τοὺς τόκους οἱ ἐγκα-
x+21λούμ̣ενοι οὐχ οἷοί εἰσιν τὴν ἀσφά-
x+22λεαν 3 l. ἀσφά|λειαν μοι δοῦναι τῶν κ̣ερμάτων
x+23ῶ̣̣̔ ὁ πατὴρ λαβὼν παρʼ ἐμοῦ
x+24ἐξετόκισεν τῶι Βιήγχει, ἀλλὰ 4om. ed. pr.
x+25καὶ τὰ ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς ὑπαλλάγμα-
x+26τα καὶ ἔτι τὴν συνγραφήν,
x+27ἣν ἔθετοτωι Βιῆγχις 5corr. ex βιηγχεις τῶι
x+28πατρὶ διʼ ἧς διασαφεῖται

1 corr. ex τουους
2 corr. ex [α]π̣ο̣κομισεσθαι
3 l. ἀσφά|λειαν
4 om. ed. pr.
5 corr. ex βιηγχεις
V
x
x+1--- with pledges and
x+2contracts. And when he asked
x+3me about these, if I could
x+4hand them over to him, on the condition
x+5that of the common interest
x+6each of us would receive his part
x+7from Bienchis until
x+8the time when we have chosen to get
x+9the capital back,
x+10I conceded to hand them over, and
x+11on his demand I also paid them out
x+12to the poeple around Bienchis,
x+13and witness to all
x+14of these things I have disclosed
x+15are my brothers and also
x+16our monther. But now,
x+17since my father has
x+18died before we have received back
x+19from Bienchis the
x+20loan and the interest for which the
x+21plaintiffs are not able neither to give the
x+22the security for the coins
x+23which my father, having received them from me,
x+24gave as a loan to Bienchis,
x+25nor the substitutory payment,
x+26nor the contract
x+27which Bienchis made up to
x+28my father through which it is proven.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4730 man Bienchis ptol. BGU 1246 Βιῆνχις pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early - middle) -299 BCE -200 BCE palaeographical dating;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 3766
last Change 29.07.2022
Berlpap 03766
Trismegistos 7322
Papyri.info ddbdp/bgu;6;1246
Author BerlPap-Team, Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 3766 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13555), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team, Ruth Duttenhöfer.