Pap. Berlin P. 13270

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13270
Publication Number	BKT V.2
Current Location	exhibition \| Neues Museum, Berlin
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:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director) Certainty:
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

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	251 mm \| 335 mm \| mm
Dating	between -299 and -200
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	broken at upper right corner

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	upper right corner broken
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	ptolemaic literary hand
Comments on Text Layout	22 lines, other side uninscribed
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	22
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Symposiastic songs
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	literary literary \| poetry
Summary of Content	Private copy of a symposiastic ὑπόμνημα (Memorandum) or song book. ll. 1–11: skolia ll. 12–21:elegy three lines on the margin (titles or notes)
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

1	αι θυγάτη
2	ἄπλετα σ ῖτα φέρων
3	α μοι τεμένη βων
4	ἐνκέρασον Χαρίτων κρατῆρα ἐπιστεφέα κρύφιον τε πρόπινε
5	λόγον. σήμαινε, ὅτι παρθένων ἀπείροσι πλέξομεν ὕμνοις
6	τὰν δορὶ σώματι κειραμέναν Τροίαν κάτα τὸν παρὰ ναυσὶν ἀειμνάστοις ἁλόντα
7	Μοῦσαι¹written on left margin, probably title of the first poem (lines 1-3)νυκτιβάταν σκολοπόν. ω μουσᾶν ἀ γανόμματε μᾶτερ συνεπίσπεο σῶν τέκνων
8	Εὐφώρατος²written on left margin, probably title of the second poem (lines 4-7) ωι ωι ἄρτι βρύουϲαν ἀοιδὰν πρωτοπαγεῖ σοφίαι διαποικίλον ἐκφέρομεν.
9	Μνημοσύνη³written on left margin, probably title of the third poem (lines 7-11)νῆά τοι τέγξαν Ἀχελώιου δρόσοι. παῦε παραπροιών, ὑφίει πόδα, λῦεἐ ανοῦ
10	πτέρυγας, τάχος ἵεσο λεπτολίθων ἐπ' ἀγῶν· :εὖ : καθόρα πέλαγος, παρὰ γᾶν
11	ἔκφευγε νότου χαλεπὰν φοβερὰν διαποντοπλανῆ μανίαν.
12	⁴beginning of a new poem, marked by paragraphosχαίρετε συμπόται ἄνδρες ὁμήλικες, ἐξ ἀγαθοῦ γὰρ
13	ἀρξάμενος τελέω τὸν λόγον εἰς ἀγαθόν.
14	χρὴ δ', ὅταν εἰς τοιοῦτο συνέλθωμεν

¹ written on left margin, probably title of the first poem (lines 1-3)
² written on left margin, probably title of the second poem (lines 4-7)
³ written on left margin, probably title of the third poem (lines 7-11)
⁴ beginning of a new poem, marked by paragraphos

φίλοι ἄνδρες

15	πρᾶγμα, γελᾶν παίζειν χρησαμένους ἀρετῆι
16	ἥδεσθαί τε συνόντας ἐς ἀλλήλους τε φλυαρεῖν
17	καὶ σκώπτειν τοιαῦτα, οἵα γέλωτα φέρειν.
18	ἡ δὲ σπουδὴ ἑπέσθω ἀκούωμέν τε λγόντων
19	ἐμ μέρει· ἥδ' ἀρετὴ συμποσίου πέλεται.
20	τοῦ δὲ προταρχοῦντος ~~τησ~~πειθώμεθα· ταῦτα γὰρ ἔστιν
21	ἔργ' ἀνδρῶν ἀγαθῶν εὐλογίαν τε φέρειν.

Places (read out from edition)

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				-299 BCE -275 BCE	palaeographical dating;

Literature

DatasetID	644
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	00644
Trismegistos	65674
Author	BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Philip Schmitz
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 644 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13270), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Philip Schmitz.