Pap. Berlin P. 23681

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23681
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	joining: Pap. Berlin P. 13634 + Pap. Berlin P. 23681a-b
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
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) 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 1908
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, light
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	30 mm \| 40 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Two small fragments from the lost upper edge of Pap. Berlin P. 13634. Fragment a: 45 x 30 mm. Fragment b: 40 x 40 mm. Measurements of the entire papyrus: 166 x 333 mm.
Mounting	framed under glass

Text Basic Information

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)	The upper part as well as the line endings (recto and verso) are lost. Within the lost upper part, the fragments Pap. Berlin P. 23681 a/b can be located..
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Auffällig große, steile mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift mit charakteristischem Duktus (Hervorhebung der Vertikalstriche, leicht nach vorne geneigt)." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Narrow line pitch. Recto: The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire sheet, with small upper and right margins. Verso: The text was placed onto the upper half of the sheet, with small upper and right margins. In the otherwise uninscribed lower part the address line was placed only.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	2+y+9	4+1
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	320	320+y
Column Height (in mm)	110	50
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	320+y x x+110	320+y x 50

Text Content

Modern Title	letter requesting allocation of different things and income ot the Anoukis priest office
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Psintaes, son of Es-Onuris-neb-Scha
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| horizontal format
Summary of Content	Letter of Psintaes, son of Es-Onuris-neb-Scha, to the scribes of the Chnoum temple. He requests the allocation of several things as well as the non monetary income of the Anoukis priests office (belonging to the sender), to Snebonychos as soon as he will visit the addressee.
Location of Composition	Memphis Lower Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

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1	ḫrw bꜣk Pꜣ-šr-(n-)tꜣ-ı͗ḥ.t sꜣ Ns-I͗n-ḥr-nb-šꜥ m-bꜣḥ nꜣ sẖ.w ı͗ ḏı͗ Pꜣ-Rꜥ q(y) pꜣy=w ꜥḥꜥ ı͗r=y
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x+3	Ns-pꜣ-nty-n-ḥ.t-nṯr ı͗n=w s
x+4	rn n nꜣy ssw my ḥn=w s r ḏı͗.t pš=w st n Ns-nb-ꜥnḫ n tꜣ nty ı͗w=f r ı͗y n.ı͗m=s ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr=ṯn mtw=w ḥn=s (r-)dbꜣ nꜣ šḏı͗.w n tꜣy=(y) ı͗ꜣw.t ḥm-nṯr (n) ꜥnq
x+5	r ḏı͗.t ḏı͗=w st r-ḏr.t.ṱ=f n nꜣy ssw.w hb=w n=ṯn n.ı͗m=s n šꜥ.t ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr pꜣ mr-ꜣḥ ꜥn hb=w n.ı͗m=s n pꜣ mr-šn ı͗rm nꜣ wꜥb.w hb=w n=ṯn
x+6	ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr pꜣ mr-ꜣḥ (r-)dbꜣ nꜣ wt n pꜣ s:ꜥnḫ rn=f nty n pꜣ ky ḏmꜥ ḏd my ı͗n=w st r-bw-nꜣy my ḥn=w s r ḏı͗.t ı͗n=w st r-ẖ-n
x+7	pꜣy hb=w n=ṯm n.ı͗m=s ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr pꜣ mr-ꜣḥ hb=w n.ı͗m=s ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr pꜣ mr-ꜣḥ (n) Ns-pꜣ-mtr pꜣ ḥry n pꜣ mšꜥ ı͗rm nꜣ wꜥb.w pꜣ mr-šn ḥn=w s ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr
x+8	pꜣ mr-ꜣḥ n Ns-H̱nm-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ-s-n-mṯk pꜣ sẖ H̱nm ı͗.ı͗r ı͗y r-bw-nꜣy ı͗rm nꜣ wꜥb.w (r-)dbꜣ nꜣ bd.t pꜣ ı͗rp pꜣ (sp) nkt nty ı͗w=w ḏı͗.t s m-bꜣḥ ꜥnq(.t) (n)
x+9	ḥ.t-nṯr n Yb r ḏı͗.t sẖ=w st r-ḏr.t.ṱ=y ḥr nꜣ ḏmꜥ.w n ḥ.t-nṯr sẖ=w st ḥr nꜣ ḏmꜥ.w n ḥsb.t 2.t r.ı͗n=w ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr pꜣ mr-ꜣḥ n ḥsb.t 3.t sẖ=w
x+10	ḥr pꜣ nbnb n ḥsb.t 3.t ꜥn sẖ=w st ḥr nꜣ ḥn.w r.ı͗r=w ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr pꜣ mr-ꜣḥ r ı͗n.ṱ=w r ḥ.t-nṯr n Yb ḏd my ı͗r=w r-ẖ.t.ṱ=w ḥn =w s
x+11	ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr pꜣ mr-ꜣḥ ꜥn ḏd my šn=w r pꜣ ky ḏmꜥ n H̱nm nꜣ bd.t pꜣ ı͗rp pꜣ ı͗wf nꜣ ı͗pd.w pꜣ sp nkt nty-ı͗w=w r gm.ṱ=w ı͗w=w

Vso 1	r ḏı͗.t st m-bꜣḥ ꜥnq(.t) n tꜣ šr.t 2.t ꜥnq(.t) r ḏı͗.t ḏı͗=w st r-ḏr.t pꜣy=(y) rd sẖ=w st ḥr nꜣ ḥn.w r.ı͗n=w n=ṯn ꜥn nꜣ.w nty-ı͗w=y hb n.ı͗m=w
Vso 2	ı͗.ı͗r=w ḫpr ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr nꜣ wꜥb.w ı͗.ı͗r ı͗y r Mn-nfr ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr pꜣ mr-ꜣḥ my ḥn=w s r ḏı͗.t ı͗r=w r-ẖ.t.ṱ=w mtw=w ḥn s r hb n=y n pꜣ nty-ı͗w=w r ı͗r=f mtw=w
Vso 3	ḥn=s n Ns-H̱nm-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ-s-n-mṯk ꜥn (r-)dbꜣ nꜣ wt r.hb=w ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr pꜣ mr-ꜣḥ ꜥn ḏd my ı͗n=w st r-bw-nꜣy sẖ Pꜣ-šr-(n-)tꜣ-ı͗ḥ.t sꜣ
Vso 4	Ns-In-ḥr-nb-šꜥ n ḥsb.t 3.t ı͗bd 1 pr.t sw 5
Vso 5	ḫrw bꜣk Pꜣ-šr-(n-)tꜣ-ı͗ḥ.t sꜣ Ns-In-ḥr-nb-šꜥ m-bꜣḥ nꜣ sẖ.w

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Places (read out from edition)

Yb (places.xml#s3)

Mn-nfr (places.xml#s14)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
785	man	Eschnoumpmetis, son of Psammetichos	Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ PꜢ-s-n-mṯk	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early)	03	Tybi	05	-332 BCE -222 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler Dating by palaeography ;

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Literature

den Brinker, Anna Adriana & Muhs, Brian & Vleeming, Sven P., A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents (2005). (18)
Lüddeckens, Erich, Papyri, Demotische, Berlin (1982). (no. F166)
Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). (no. 308)
Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Papyri von der Insel Elephantine 2 (1993). (no. 23681 a-b)

DatasetID	100507
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46452
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100507 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23681), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.