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Pap. Berlin P. 23662

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23662
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

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) 36 mm | 82 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Consists of two not joining fragments. Fragment a: 36 x 164 mm. Fragment b: 71 x 82 mm. Entire papyrus: Upper and lower edges damaged.
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) Middle part of lines1-2, beginning of line 2, and the total of line 3 lost.
Script, Primary Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Geübte, relativ sorgfältige früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. With small lateral margins as well as medium upper and lower margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2[+1] 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 1557 0
Column Height (in mm) 25 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 155+y+7 x 25+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter of unclear content
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | horizontal format
Summary of Content Letter of Esyris to Espmetis. Detailed content unclear due to the fragmentary condition.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R

1ḫrw Ns-ḥr m-bꜣḥ wṯs-Rꜥ Ns-pꜣ-mtr pꜣ mr-šn ı͗ ḏı͗ Pꜣ-Rꜥ qy pꜣy=f ꜥḥꜥ ꜥḥꜥ=y ı͗-ı͗r-ḥr=k my ı͗r=w n=y tꜣ
2 mtw=k wḫꜣ st ı͗-ı͗r
3

1Voice of Esyris [_] before the carrier-of-Ra, Espmetis, the lesonis. Oh may Pre [cause his lifetime to be long!] I have [appeared] before you. Let to be done for me the
2⸢.?.⸣ [///] And you may request it
3[///]
P_23662-Fr-a-b_R-vorla
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P_23662-Fr-a-b_V-vorla
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
865 man Espmetis, son of Espneti-hetnetjer (carrier-of-Ra and lesonis) Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ Ns-pꜢ-nty-(n-)ḥ.t-nṯr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

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_23662-Fr-a-b_R-vorla
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P_23662-Fr-a-b_V-vorla
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100399
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46644
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100399 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23662), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.