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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23594 |
Current Location | magazine |
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 |
Date of Discovery Term. Ante / Post Quem Non |
between 11 1 1907 and 11 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) | 102 mm | 259 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The lower edge is broken off, large rectangular holes in the middle part. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Comments on Object | In the middle a continuous vertical sheet join (kollesis) (ca. 14 mm). |
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) | Last line partly lost. In the middle one large hole with substantial text losses. | |
Script, Primary | Early Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Early Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Gute frühdemotische Urkundenschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. Right-aligned text, with broad uper and left marign, and a medium right margin. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 5 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 200 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 60 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 200 x 60 | 0 |
Modern Title | receipt of a payment to the bank of commander Ravaka |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Receipt of a payment to the bank of Ravaka, military commander of the Syene fortress. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Comments on Text | Similarity with Pap. Berlin P. 13582. Pressumably both issued for the same person (Teos, son of Pibesis, son of Peteesis (Zauzich) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
285 | man | Ravaka | Rwgy, רוך | Old Persian | ||
2220 | man | Teos, son of Pibesis, son of Peteesis | Ḏd-ḥr sꜢ PꜢy-bs sꜣ Pꜣ-r.ḏỉ-ꜣs.t | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Darius I | 10 | Phamenoth | -512 June 27 BCE -512 July 26 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 100342 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 45722 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100342 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23594), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |