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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23572 |
Publication Number | |
Current Location | magazine |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication upon enquiry only |
Publication Status | partly published |
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 / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) 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 |
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 1906 and 1908 |
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) | Borchardt, Ludwig Certainty: high |
Object Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, dark |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 68 mm | 82 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The upper and lower parts are broken off in undetermined extent. Left and right edges damaged. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Comments on Object | Palimpsest. On recto traces of an anterior text, on the verso not erased - new text written on the recto only. |
Localization of Text on Object | recto/verso | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (recto) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Upper and lower part broken off in undetermined, right and left parts damaged. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | Recto (new text): "Sorgfältige mitteldemotische Buchschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) Verso (old text): "Relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Recto (new text): Medium line pitch. Line length varying, with broad but inequal left margin. Rotated by 90° with respect to the old text. Verso (old text): Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text shows a broad right margin. | |
Existing Pictorial Elements | ||
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | x+6+y (new text) | x+6+y (old text) |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 65 | 65 |
Column Height (in mm) | 60 | x+65+y |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 65 x x+60+y (new text) | 55 x x+65+y (old text) |
Modern Title | writing exercise: professions (or clothes and fish?) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | 1) Old text (verso): Text mentioning the Chnoum priests of Elephantine. Due to the very fragmentary status further details cannot be detected. 2) New text (recto): Writing exercise with a list of professions like fisherman or weaver. According to Zauzich in VOHD XIX,2 it can also be possible that here a list of clothes and fish is given. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 According to K.-Th. Zauzich written like mnḫ-ḫpr? 2 For this lemma see also Pap. Berlin P. 13593:5.
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
8090 | not applicable | (no further persons mentioned) | (no further persons mentỈoned) | (none) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic dynasty | -332 BCE -30 BCE | dating by palaeography; |
DatasetID | 100007 |
last Change | 26.08.2022 |
Trismegistos | 50135 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100007 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23572), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |