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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23615 |
Current Location | magazine |
Comments on Inventory | Two not directly joining fragments. |
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 |
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 Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 271 mm | 80 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Consists of two not joining fragments. Fragment a: 50 x 20 mm. Only on the right side original edge preserved. Fragment b: 80 x 240 mm. The upper part is broken off. On the verso two strings are teared off. |
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) | Consists of two not joining fragments. Upper part (including fr. a) lost in undetermined extent. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Kleine, recht sorgfältige, trotzdem teilweise undeutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The right-alighed text has small lateral margins and a broad lower margin. Line length varying. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | x+1+y+22 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 75 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 20200 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 75 x x+20+y+200 | 0 |
Modern Title | letter regarding criminal investigations on persons which have acted against a statue of the pharaoh |
Ancient Archives | administration of justice | correspondence archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter hardly understandlable, regarding criminal investigations on persons which have acted against a statue of the pharaoh. |
Location of Composition | Thebes Upper Egypt, 4th nome Egypt (Certainty: medium) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic dynasty | 33 | Phaophi | 27 | -332 BCE -30 BCE | ; |
DatasetID | 100386 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46605 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100386 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23615), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |