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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23682 |
Current Location | magazine |
Comments on Inventory | joining: Pap. Berlin P. 15801 und Pap. Berlin P. 23682 a-b registered as existing during revision (1967) |
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 18 12 1906 and 18 12 1906 |
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 1906 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
Object Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 171 mm | 125 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Both lateral parts are broken off in undetermined extent. On the right side several vertically stringed holes from the original sealing. Frequent horizontal breaks at the foldings. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Localization of Text on Object | recto/verso | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (verso) and perpendicular (recto) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | All line beginnings and endings broken off. Damages to the script by holes and breaks. | |
Script, Primary | Early to Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Geübte, schwungvolle, klare früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Recto: Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, with small upper and lower margins. Verso: Medium line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper third of the sheet, with a small upper margin. The lower two-third remain uninscribed except for the address line placed at the lower section. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 14 | 7+1 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 125 | 125 |
Column Height (in mm) | 155 | 70 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 125 x 155 | 125 x 70 |
Modern Title | letter mentioning a voyage to the north by the pharaoh |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter of Snebonychos, son of Espneti-hetnetjer, to Espmetis, son of Espneti-hetnetjer. Referenced to a voyage to the north by the pharaoh at the 18th of Tybi. The lesonis had not written to the sender of this letter. The same addressee is also found in Pap. Berlin P. 15614+23667, 23612. |
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 |
865 | man | Espmetis, son of Espneti-hetnetjer (carrier-of-Ra and lesonis) | Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ Ns-pꜢ-nty-(n-)ḥ.t-nṯr | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Late period or Early Ptolemaic period | Tybi | 23 | -332 BCE -222 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 100498 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46549 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100498 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23682), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |