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Pap. Berlin P. 23593

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Metadata

Collection

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

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 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

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).

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, 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

 

Text Content

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
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_23593_R
Reserved Copyright
P_23593_V
Reserved Copyright
     
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
Darius I 30 Hathyr 27 -492 March 20 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

P_23593_R
Reserved Copyright
P_23593_V
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

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.