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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23655 |
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 |
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 |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 142 mm | 74 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Upper edge partially damaged. One larger hole in the upper middle section. Some horizontal and vertical breaks. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Localization of Text on Object | recto | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (recto) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Lines 1 - 3 damaged. Partly faded. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige, geübte, nicht immer 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 margins, but with a small lower margin. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 10 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 70 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 120 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 70 x 120 | 0 |
Modern Title | loan of money contract about 2½ kite |
Ancient Archives | private archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Loan of money contract in the form of a letter, of Chnoummachis, son of Achoapis. The issuer has borrowed 2½ kite, which has to be repaid to the temple until a fixed date. If he will be in default, he will pay 3¼ (?) kite. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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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 | 18 | Hathyr | 20 | -332 BCE -30 BCE | ; |
DatasetID | 100345 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 45731 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100345 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23655), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |