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Pap. Berlin P. 23687

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23687
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 17 11 1907 and 19 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) 41 mm | 42 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The lower part as well as the left part are broken off in undetermined extent. One minor hole.
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) Lower part and all line endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Gute, sorgfältige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Medium but inequal line pitch Text without a right marign, but with a medium upper one.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 40 0
Column Height (in mm) 30 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 40+y x 30+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter of unclear content
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter of Onnophris, to [///]bn or to his son, with unclear content 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
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1Wn-nfr sꜣ Ḥr-m-ḥb pꜣ nty ḏd
2tw=y ı͗r nꜣ sm.w n NN
3-bn 1This must not be a negation bn because of the following title. Currently only one name with such ending is known to me, Sṯꜣṱ-ı͗r.t-bn as a variant of Sṯꜣṱ-ı͗r.t-bı͗n.t: LÜDDECKENS, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 943 – 944. pꜣ ḥm-nṯr tpy ꜣb
4ff.

1 This must not be a negation bn because of the following title. Currently only one name with such ending is known to me, Sṯꜣṱ-ı͗r.t-bn as a variant of Sṯꜣṱ-ı͗r.t-bı͗n.t: LÜDDECKENS, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 943 – 944.

1Onnophris, son of Harmais, is the one who [speaks:]
2“I greet [///]-
3-ben, the high priest ..?..[///] [///]
4ff.[///]
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
15740 (unknown) [///]bin [///]bn (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 100401
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46653
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100401 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23687), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.