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Pap. Berlin P. 23705

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23705
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned

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 20 10 1907 and 3 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) 161 mm | 112 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The left part is broken off in undetermined extent. Upper and lower edges mainly lost. Horizontal and vertical breaks along the foldings.
Mounting framed under glass

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) Line endings broken off.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Sorgfältige, etwas steife mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. Right-aligned text with medium upper as well as broad right and lower margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 12 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 60 0
Column Height (in mm) 110 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 60 x 110 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account of the delivery of Syrian wine
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Account of the delivery of Egyptian and "Syrian" wine from different cities, for the needs of the Chnoum temple.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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1ḥsb.t 18 ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 12 ı͗p ı͗rp
2sw 2 (n) Swn 1A version with silver determinative is attested, although this is not the regular writing. Information on this writing due to K.-Th. ZAUZICH, Email 14.01.2020. n-ḏr.t 2The reading of this lemma by ZAUZICH is cited in DE CENIVAL 1984 III, 23 sub 4,2. I͗y-m-ḥtp (sꜣ) Glgl 3This name of possible Semitic origin (cf. VITTMANN 1996, 445 subb glg) is currently attested once only in the literature, on a camel bone from the Bahariyqa Oasis from BCE 138: E: BRESCIANI, „Ostraka demotici da Ossirinco”, in: SCO 27 (1977), 14 – 15 no. 1. (qws)
3sw 7 n Snı͗ 4For this toponym see DBL 2005, 833 § 54. Cf. otherwise QUACK in Enchoria 24 (1997/8), 47 with further literature. n-ḏr.t 5According to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL, 18. Nḫṱ- (qws)
4sw 9 (n) Gbṱ n-ḏr.t Prtrqws (qws)
5ı͗rp H̱r
6sw 15 n Pꜣ-sy
7n-ḏr.t n nꜣ rmṯ.w n Nꜣy.w-t(ꜣ)-ḥ.wt ı͗rp H̱r (qws)
8sw 25 (n) Ḫmnw
9Wn-nfr pꜣ ḥm-nṯr I͗mn ı͗rp H̱r (qws)
10nꜣ rmṯ.w (n) tmy ı͗rp H̱r (qws)
11Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗mn pꜣ ḥm-nṯr ꜣs.t ı͗rp H̱r(qws)
12r ı͗rp 8 (qws) wp. t H̱r 2

1 A version with silver determinative is attested, although this is not the regular writing. Information on this writing due to K.-Th. ZAUZICH, Email 14.01.2020.
2 The reading of this lemma by ZAUZICH is cited in DE CENIVAL 1984 III, 23 sub 4,2.
3 This name of possible Semitic origin (cf. VITTMANN 1996, 445 subb glg) is currently attested once only in the literature, on a camel bone from the Bahariyqa Oasis from BCE 138: E: BRESCIANI, „Ostraka demotici da Ossirinco”, in: SCO 27 (1977), 14 – 15 no. 1.
4 For this toponym see DBL 2005, 833 § 54. Cf. otherwise QUACK in Enchoria 24 (1997/8), 47 with further literature.
5 According to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL, 18.
118th regnal year, 12 of Pachons. Account of (scil. Egyptian) wine
22nd day, (from) Syene, by Imouthes, son of Gelgel: [/// (qus)].
37th day, from Esna, by Nakht[/// (qus)].
49th day, (from) Coptos, by Protarchos: [/// (qus)].
5Syrian wine:
615th day, from Ptolemais,
7by the men from Natho: [_] [Syrian] wine [/// (qus)].
825th day, (from) Hermopolis, (by)
9Onnophris, the priest of Amun: [_] Syrian wine [/// (qus)].
10(and by) the men (from) the settlement: [_] [Syrian] wine [/// (qus)].
11(and by) Petamounis, the priest of Isis: [_] [Syrian] wine [/// (qus)].
12Yields wine 8 (qus). Specification: Syrian (scil. wine): 2 (qus).
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Swn (places.xml#s8)
  • Snı͗ (places.xml#s31)
  • Gbṱ (places.xml#s92)
  • Pꜣ-sy (places.xml#s40)
  • Nꜣy.w-t(ꜣ)-ḥ.wt (places.xml#s203)
  • Ḫmnw (places.xml#s47)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    35725 man Imouthes, son of Gelgel I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Glgl pre-Coptic Egyptian

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Ptolemaic dynasty 18 Pachons 12(?) -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

     

    Pictures

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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 100350
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 45740
    Author Jan Moje
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 100350 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23705), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.