Pap. Berlin P. 23588 a - f

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23588 a - f
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	joining: Pap. Berlin P. 13577a-b + 23588a-f
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details	"Nordschugl"
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty: high
Date of Discovery Term. Ante / Post Quem Non	between 6 1 1907 and 6 1 1907
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director) 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 1907 and 1907
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, light
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	335 mm \| 720 mm \| mm
Criteria for Dating	The first text written on this papyrus (in Greek) is dated within the text to BCE 214/213.
State of Preservation	Consists of six not joining fragments. Heavils damaged. H x W: c: 225 x 257 mm; d: 184 x 143 mm; e: 95 x 167 mm; f: 117 x 98 mm.
Mounting	currently in 3 glass frames
Comments on Object	Palimpest. Traces of an anterior text in Greek, illegible. In the left part one vertical sheet join (kollesis) (10 mm).

Localization of Text on Object	recto/verso
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)	Several holes with substantial text losses. All sides broken off.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Flüchtige, teilweise recht undeutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. Columns right-aligned, with small distances to each other.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	several columns with up to 30 lines	several columns with up to 30 lines
Quantity of Columns	several columns with up to 30 lines	several columns with up to 30 lines
Height of Line / Letter

Modern Title	Receipt concerning field allotments and payments of money of the Chnoum temple
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Currently unknown)
Text Types	documentary \| account
Summary of Content	Receipt in form of a list concerning allotments of fields from the Chnoum temple domain to land leasers, some of them Greeks; lists of payments of money. The presereved part of an anterior Greke text dates to 214/213 BCE.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (late)				-180 BCE -30 BCE	Dating by palimpsest: older text in Greek dated BCE 214/213.;

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DatasetID	100323
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	12308
Trismegistos	45688
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100323 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23588 a - f ), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.