Pap. Berlin P. 23689

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23689
Current Location	magazine
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
Date of Discovery Term. Ante / Post Quem Non	between 2 11 1907 and 11 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 Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, light
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	76 mm \| 62 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The lower part as well as the left part are broken off in undetermined extent. In the middle a continuous vertical break.
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)	Lower part and all line endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Gute mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift mit sicherem, ziemlich breitem Strich." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Narrow line pitch. The right aligned text shows medium right and upper margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5+y	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	50	0
Column Height (in mm)	55	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	50+y x 55+y	0

Modern Title	letter mentioning a ship and liquids
Ancient Archives	private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [lost])
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	Beginning of a letter of Sentais, daughter of Pekysis, possibly to her brother(?). Mention of a ship and of 3 thm measure for liquids.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Woman Man
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: sender of a letter (but not writer?)
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Transcription

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1	Tꜣ-šr.t-tꜣ-ı͗ḥ.t ta Pꜣ-ı͗gš tꜣ nty ḏd n NN
2	sꜣ Pꜣ-ı͗gš tw=y ı͗r nꜣy=k sm.w m-bꜣḥ GN /// ı͗w=y
3	mḥ r nꜣ šp.w
4	pꜣ ḏy n Pꜣ-šr-I͗mn ẖr
5	ḏı͗=y n=f 3 thm ḏd

1	Sentais, daughter of Pekysis, [is the one who speaks to] [NN],
2	son of Pekysis: I greet you [before GN. ///. I am]
3	paid in full regarding the incoming payments ⸢..?..⸣ [///]
4	the ship of Psenamounis, regarding [///]
5	I have given him 3 tehem-liquid units as follows [///]

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
31115	man	Psenamounis (P 23689)	PꜢ-šr-Ỉmn	pre-Coptic Egyptian

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

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DatasetID	100402
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46655
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100402 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23689), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.