Pap. Berlin P. 23593

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23593
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 1907 and 1907
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, light
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	126 mm \| 208 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent, upper section of the preserved very frayed and holey.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	In the left third a continuous vertical sheet join (kollesis) (ca. 10 mm).

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, presumably only few lines. Upper preserved part holey with substantial text losses.
Script, Primary	Early Demotic
Language, Primary	Early Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Flüssige, sorgfältige frühdemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. Right-aligned text, with medium lateral and a small lower margins. Line length varying.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+9	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	175	0
Column Height (in mm)	115	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	175 x x+115	0

Modern Title	letter concerning the delivery of several items, and an order to the scribes of the Chnoum temple to come to him with the account of the temple domain
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Harchebis
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| horizontal format
Summary of Content	Letter of Harchebis concerning the delivery of several items, among others tgm oil. Order that the scribes of the Chnoum temple should come to him with the account of the temple domain.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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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	30	Hathyr	27	-492 March 20 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	100381
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46587
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100381 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23593), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.