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Pap. Berlin P. 23660

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23660
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) 92 mm | 93 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper part as well as the left part are broken off in undetermined extent. Some horizontal breaks.
Mounting framed under glass

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) perpendicular (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Upper part and all line endings broken off in undetermined extent. Beginning of line x+1 lost.
Script, Primary Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Sehr flüchtige früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (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 right, but without a lower margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+7 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 90 0
Column Height (in mm) 90 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 90 x x+90 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter regarding the sustenance of several persons
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | horizontal format
Summary of Content Letter regarding the sustenance of several persons. Some of the mentioned persons are also mentioned in Pap. Berlin P. 23623.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_23660_R-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23660_V-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period - Early Ptolemaic dynasty -664 BCE -222 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_23660_R-vorlaeufig
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P_23660_V-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100398
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46642
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100398 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23660), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.