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Pap. Berlin P. 23573

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23573
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) 72 mm | 62 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Minor breaks along the horizontal 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) Upper part broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Auffallend kleine, sorgfältige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Very wide line pitch. The right-aligned text shows small lateral margins. The lower part remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+5 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 50 0
Column Height (in mm) 40 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 50 x x+40 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter with confirmation of letter receipt and of delivery of oil
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
  • documentary | list
Summary of Content Letter with confirmation of the receipt of a letter to the priest of Chnoum. The sender states that he has handed over a quantity of oil to a certain person (the letter deliverer?)
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_23573_R-vorlaeufig
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P_23573_V-vorlaeufig
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

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)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty 07 Payni 05(?) -332 BCE -30 BCE Dating by palaeography. ;

 

Pictures

P_23573_R-vorlaeufig
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P_23573_V-vorlaeufig
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Literature

 

DatasetID 100379
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46571
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100379 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23573), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.