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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23648 |
Current Location | magazine |
Comments on Inventory | Possibly joining: Pap. Berlin P. 23647 + Pap. Berlin P. 23648. |
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) | 62 mm | 68 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The upper part as well as the lower and the right part are broken off in undetermined extent. Horizontal and vertical breaks. |
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) | Upper and lower part as well as all line beginnings broken off in undetermined extent, likewise all line endings. Some holes with text losses. Partly faded. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Auffallend kleine, relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. Right-aligned text with medium right and upper margins. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | x+7+y | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 65 | |
Column Height (in mm) | 60 | |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | x+66 x x+60+y | 0 |
Modern Title | letter possibly regarding a payment of money |
Ancient Archives | unclear |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter of Hor-?- , son of Harchebis, possibly regarding a payment of money. The sender mentions his arrival at a certain place. |
Location of Composition | unknown (in Lower Egypt) Lower Egypt Egypt (Certainty: medium) |
Comments on Text | The ductus of Pap. Berlin P. 23647 and P. 23648 not usual in Elephantine. The text was presumably written in Lower Egypt (Zauzich in VOHD XIX,2). |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
8090 | not applicable | (no further persons mentioned) | (no further persons mentỈoned) | (none) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic dynasty | Mesore | -332 BCE -30 BCE | ; |
DatasetID | 100394 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46637 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100394 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23648), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |