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Pap. Berlin P. 23610

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23610
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only

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: 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
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 97 mm | 86 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Left edge damaged and partially frayed. In the middle a continuous vertical break.
Mounting framed under glass

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Upper part broken off in undetermined extent. Some holes with minor text damages.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Kleine, relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, without lateral and lower margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+9 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 85 0
Column Height (in mm) 90 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 85 x x+90 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title mention of tombs of persons with Greek names
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Mention of tombs of persons with Greek names. The sender will stay in the vicinity of the tombs unless he receives information on actions taken.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Austria (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_23610_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23610_V
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
33490 man Aineas ꜣynꜣs Greek, Ancient
33500 man Bel-emiti Blmtys (Demotic) Phoenician
33495 man Numenios Nwmnys Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty 16 Pharmuthi 21 -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_23610_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23610_V
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100009
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46600
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100009 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23610), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.