Pap. Berlin P. 23698

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23698
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 1906 and 1906
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, dark
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	189 mm \| 120 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The lower part as well as the left part are broken off in undetermined extent. Right edge mainly damaged, one part with original edge. Several larger and minor holes.
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)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	All line endings broken off in undetermined extent. Very holey but with minor text damages.
Script, Primary	Early Demotic
Language, Primary	Early Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Flüchtige frühdemotische Urkundenschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the lower half of the sheet, with a medium lower margin.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	110	0
Column Height (in mm)	80	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	110+y x 80	0

Modern Title	marriage contract
Ancient Archives	private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [lost])
Text Types	documentary \| contract \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Marriage contract of a woman for a man. The content remains unclear due to the fragmentaray condition.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Woman Man
Comment on Gender	- activity of woman: contractant - identifier of woman: [///]
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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1	ḥsb.t 19 ı͗bd 3 ꜣḫ.t n pr-ꜥꜣ Tꜣrywš ı͗w=y (r) ḫꜣꜥ=k
2	n hy ı͗w=y r ḏı͗.t ⸢n=k⸣ ḥḏ qd 2
3	ḥḏ qd 2
4
5	ı͗wty dḏ qnb nb n pꜣ tꜣ ı͗rm=k sẖ NN

1	19th regnal year, Hathyr, of pharaoh Da[reios. /// If I leave you]
2	as husband, I will give you 2 silver kite [///]
3	[///] ..?.. 2 silver kite
4	[///] ⸢..?..⸣ [///]
1	⸢..?..⸣ [///] [without taking] any lawsuit [on earth against you. Written by NN.]

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8060	not applicable	(No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text)	(No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text)	(none)

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Darius I	19	Hathyr		-503 February 25 BCE -503 March 26 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	100351
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46238
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100351 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23698), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.