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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23700 |
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 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 Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 245 mm | 84 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Right edge damaged in the middle part. Several large vertical holes. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Restoration Activities | Restaurierung abgeschlossen |
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) | Some vertical breaks with substantial text losses. | |
Script, Primary | Late Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Roman Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige, relativ deutliche spätdemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Very wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, with small and equal right margin, medium upper and broad lower margin, where the last line is placed. Line length varying. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 17 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 75 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 210 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 75 x 210 | 0 |
Modern Title | letter of unclear content |
Ancient Archives | unclear |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter of Pachnoumis, son of Imouthes, to [///]nefer[///], son of Psen-[?]. The content remains unclear due to the fragmentaray condition. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
11035 | man | Petechnoumis (P.23700) | PꜢ-ḏỉ-H̱nm | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
2770 | man | [///]nefer[///], son of Psen-[?] | [///]-nfr-[///] sꜢ PꜢ-šr-[?] | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Roman Period | 09 | Pharmuthi | 19 | -30 BCE 211 CE | ; |
DatasetID | 100406 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46660 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100406 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23700), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |