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Pap. Berlin P. 23615

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Metadata

Collection

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

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, 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

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) 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

 

Text Content

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
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_23615-Fr-a-b_R-vorla
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P_23615-Fr-a-b_V-vorla
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty 33 Phaophi 27 -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_23615-Fr-a-b_R-vorla
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P_23615-Fr-a-b_V-vorla
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

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.