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Pap. Berlin P. 23672

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23672
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

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
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non
between 9 11 1907 and 10 11 1907
Finder (= First Purchaser) Zucker, Friedrich (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

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 75 mm | 88 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper part as well as the right part are broken off in undetermined extent. Several breaks and holes. On the verso a strip is teared off for the wrapping of the entire roll.
Mounting framed under glass
Comments on Object Near the left edge one continuous vertical sheet join (kollesis) (ca. 10 mm).

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 and all line beginnings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Early Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Relativ deutliche frühdemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. Line length varying, without lower margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3+4 (witnesses) 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 80 0
Column Height (in mm) 70 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+80 x x+70 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title fragment of a contract
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | contract | vertical format
Summary of Content Small fragment of a contract with four witness signatures.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_23672_R-vorlaeufig
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P_23672_V-vorlaeufig
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Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

P_23672_R-vorlaeufig
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P_23672_V-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100347
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 45736
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100347 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23672), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.