Pap. Berlin P. 23707

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23707
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	joining: Pap. Berlin P. 15614, Pap. Berlin P. 23667 + Pap. Berlin P. 23707
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned

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 Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, light
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The left part is broken off in undetermined extent. Lower edge frayed. Horizontal and vertical breaks along the foldings. Several oblonged and vertically stringed holes in the sheet.
Mounting	framed under glass

Localization of Text on Object	recto/verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel (verso) and perpendicular (recto)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Some line endings and beginning damaged.
Script, Primary	Early Demotic
Language, Primary	Early Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Geübte, schwungvolle frühdemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire sheet, without lateral margins, but with a small upper margin. Verso: The text was placed onto the upper two-thirds of the sheet, without lateral margins, but with a small upper margin. The lower half remains uninscribed, except for the address line in the lower middle section
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9	7+1
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	315	310
Column Height (in mm)	110	80
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	315 x 110	310 x 80

Modern Title	letter concerning an error
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Snebonychos, son of Espneti-hetnetjer
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| horizontal format
Summary of Content	Letter of Snebonychos, son of Espneti-hetnetjer, to Espmetis, son of Espneti-hetnetjer, concerning an error of which the addressee is accused. Mention of sm-herbes and wine. The same addressee is also mentioned on Pap. Berlin P. 15801+23682, 23612.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
865	man	Espmetis, son of Espneti-hetnetjer (carrier-of-Ra and lesonis)	Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ Ns-pꜢ-nty-(n-)ḥ.t-nṯr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty)		Hathyr	27	-664 BCE -332 BCE	;

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DatasetID	100321
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46519
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100321 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23707), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.