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Pap. Berlin P. 23609

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23609
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
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
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 1908
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, dark (recto), light (verso)
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 233 mm | 52 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Right side damaged with one larger hole in the upper section.
Mounting framed under glass
Comments on Object Palimpsest. On the recto traces of an anterior text.

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. Line beginnings damaged.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers the upper half of the preserved sheet, without lateral margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+7 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 70 0
Column Height (in mm) 90 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 70 x x+90 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter regarding a payment of money
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content End of a letter of Payris, son of Eschnumis, regarding a payment of money of the sender. A lesonis mentioned in the text may be the addressee, according to Zauzich in VOHD XIX,2.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
BER-PI_23609_R_001
Reserved Copyright
BER-PI_23609_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8090 not applicable (no further persons mentioned) (no further persons mentỈoned) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty 11 Choiak 20 -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

BER-PI_23609_R_001
Reserved Copyright
BER-PI_23609_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100384
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46599
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100384 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23609), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.