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Pap. Berlin P. 23685

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23685
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 5 11 1907 and 5 11 1907
Finder (= First Purchaser) Zucker, Friedrich (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 1907 and 1907
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 282 mm | 43 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The right part is broken off at about 50 of the original width. Left edge partially damaged. Ona large hole in the middle of the sheet. Some horizontal and vertical 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) Line beginnings broken off at approximately 50 % of their original length. Line endings partly damaged.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Flüchtige, geübte spätdemotische Gschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. Text with medium upper and broad lower margin. Line length varying.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 23 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) -4545 0
Column Height (in mm) 240 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance (ca.45+)45 x 240 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter with unclear content
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter with an answer on foregoing correspondence. 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
P_23685_R-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23685_V-vorlaeufig
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period 22 -30 BCE 211 CE ;

 

Pictures

P_23685_R-vorlaeufig
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P_23685_V-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100400
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46651
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100400 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23685), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.