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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23566 |
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 |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | Rubensohn, Otto (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 1906 and 1907 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
Object Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 81 mm | 83 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Several holes in the otherwise complete sheet. |
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) | complete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Several holes with text losses, format complete. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the sheet, without lateral margins, but with broad lateral and lower margins. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 6 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 80 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 60 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 80 x 60 | 0 |
Modern Title | receipt in letter form, confirming the payment of money |
Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Receipt in letter form. The sender (name lost) confirms the addressee, Petenephotes, son of Pouoptis, of having received from Petobastis six silver kite. The receipt was written by a certain Pais, son of Espmetis. |
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 |
11125 | man | Petenephotes, son of Pouoptis | PꜢ-ḏỉ-nfr-ḥtp sꜢ Pꜣ-wp.ṱ; Πετενεφώτης | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
11130 | man | Petobastis (P. 23566) | PꜢ-ḏỉ-BꜢst.t | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic dynasty | 05(?) | -332 BCE -30 BCE | Dating by palaeography. ; |
DatasetID | 100408 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 50133 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100408 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23566), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |