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Pap. Berlin P. 23637

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23637
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 15 12 1906 and 15 12 1906
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 1906 and 1906
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 112 mm | 188 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper as well as the left part are broken off in undetermined extent. Damage of the right edge. Several holes in the sheet.
Mounting framed under glass
Comments on Object In the lower section a continuous horizontal sheet join (kollesis) (ca. 15 mm).

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) perpendicular
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Upper part and line endings broken off in undetermined extent. Line beginnings damaged. Several holes with rather minor text losses.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift, auffällig nach rechts geneigt und ziemlich groß." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, with a small lower margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+9 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 190 0
Column Height (in mm) 105 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+190+y x 105 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter regarding consolation and advice to the addressee
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | horizontal format
Summary of Content Letter with the sender giving consolation and advice to the addressee.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
9915 man Eschnoumpmetis (Lesonis) (P. 13559, 23580, 23637, 23641, 23665) Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mtr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) -332 BCE -222 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_23637_Rv_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_23637_Rv_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100391
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46627
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100391 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23637), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.