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Pap. Berlin P. 23622

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23622
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, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 277 mm | 86 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Left edge in the upper preserved section with some holes. Some small horizonal breaks.
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) Upper part broken off in undetermined extent. Last third of the first three lines lost.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Flüchtige, jedoch relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, without lateral margins but with a small lower one.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+23 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 85 0
Column Height (in mm) 260 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 85 x x+260 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter concerning conflics and interrogation of men
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter reporting conflicts concering something. Note on the interrogation of two men confirming the information of the sender.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_23622_R-vorlaeufig
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P_23622_V-vorlaeufig
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
10845 man Potemetous (P. 23622) PꜢ-wḏꜢ-mtw=s pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty 19 Pachons 18 -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_23622_R-vorlaeufig
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P_23622_V-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100387
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46612
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100387 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23622), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.